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Friday, 02 December 2022

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Canacona gets 3 disaster homes

The Times of India 01 Dec 2022

The multi-purpose mitigation projects were taken up by the Centre in collaboration with the World Bank at a cost of Rs 3 crore each.

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Finance Minister Clarifies Alleged N206bn Padding of Humanitarian Ministry’s Budget, Others

This Day 30 Nov 2022

“Power Sector Recovery Operation (PSRO); funded by World Bank ... Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) to be executed by the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), funded by World Bank and AfDB ... The project is the “Second Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence for Development Impact Project” and the financier is the World Bank.

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Dubai sovereign wealth fund ICD posts record revenues, profits

Khaleejtimes 30 Nov 2022

ICD owns stakes in many of Dubai’s flagship entities such as Emirates airline, budget carrier flydubai Emirates NBD bank, Dubai Islamic Bank, Borse Dubai, Enoc, Emaar, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubal Holding and Emirates Global Aluminium among others ... new world economic paradigm.

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Tech in Ghana confab opens in Accra

B & FT Online 29 Nov 2022

... previous edition was held in London and featured over 450 speakers – with support and partnerships from the Ministry of Communications and Digitisation, Ghana High Commission, Accra, Ghana Chamber of Commerce, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre and World Bank among others.

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is key to success of pupils

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Nov 2022

The world-renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is associated with Glyndebourne and the South Bank Centre and has worked with stars including Nicola Benedetti ...

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Centre sees economic growth in FY23 at 6.5%

Live Mint 24 Nov 2022

It had hiked the repo rate for the fourth straight time by 50 basis points, taking the policy rate to a three-year high of 5.9%.The Centre’s forecast is in line with the World Bank’s latest projection, which sharply cut growth forecast for FY23 by 100 basis points to 6.5% last ...

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This is the time when most interesting investments occur: TPG Capital's Jim Coulter

The Times of India 24 Nov 2022

And a world of time, where assets generally moved up together, has now evolved into a world of dispersion of economies and asset classes ... The US will push something down the technology curve, which will then move out to the world ... The Centre is very keen to privatise refiners and banks such as IDBI ... You own banks around the region and the world.

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Boycott FIFA World Cup! BJP leader’s appeal to Centre over ‘invite’ to Islamic preacher Zakir Naik

Financial Express 23 Nov 2022

Amid reports of Qatar inviting controversial Islamic preacher and Indian fugitive Zakir Naik to the FIFA World Cup, Goa BJP spokesperson Savio Rodrigues has appealed to the government and Indian Football Associations to boycott the sports event ... Congress slams Centre over “unbridled powers” to PSU banks. The FIFA World Cup is a global event.

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Telemedicine could have mitigated health crisis during flood calamity, says Dr Azra

The News International 19 Nov 2022

Dr Azra announced that the provincial government was going to launch a programme with the support of the World Bank to set up community centres to be linked with dispensaries where women, children and men would get telehealth sessions ... She said a centre for tele-mental health ...

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Supreme Court told new Reko Diq project to start within five years

The News International 17 Nov 2022

After the apex court judgment, the Tethyan Copper Company approached the international arbitration tribunal of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which issued an award of $9 billion in damages to Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) on ...

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays into Erik ten Hag’s hands with petulant strop

Irish Independent 15 Nov 2022

... not with them at its centre ... That it has come with full exposure of a side to Ronaldo’s personality mostly hidden to his public was just a bonus.All those goals and moments when Ronaldo made United feel like the centre of the football world – they are in the bank.

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2 decades of gauging public opinion: Looking back at Afrobarometer’s remarkable journey

Joy Online 15 Nov 2022

... for Democracy, the Mastercard Foundation, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the University of California San Diego, the Global Centre for Pluralism, the World Bank Group, Freedom House, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda, GIZ, and Humanity United.

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2022 Third Quarter Report

Eagle-Tribune 15 Nov 2022

(together "Claimants"), remain focused on concluding their arbitration case against the Romanian State ("Respondent") under the rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ("ICSID"), part of the World Bank ("ICSID Arbitration").

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Monday Musings: Finally, PMC flags excess water usage issue

Hindustan Times 14 Nov 2022

When the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) launched action last week against residents using excess water, it evoked mixed reaction ... The action, in itself, is new and much needed ... As the World Bank has noted, water is at the centre of economic and social development; it is vital to maintain health, grow food, manage the environment, and create jobs.

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Revealed: secret courts that allow energy firms to sue for billions accused of ‘bias’ as governments exit

The Observer 14 Nov 2022

Slovenia exited earlier in the week, after similar moves by France, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland. The UK is now one of the last large economies to remain in the ECT ... The ECT’s tribunals can proceed under several systems, but the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of International Disputes (ICSID) rules are most commonly used ... .