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24 Aug 17
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $400m loan to support renovation and electrification work of an urban railway in Argentina.
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24 Aug 17
People are being driven by the effects of drought to flee Central America into the United States, the World Food Programme has said.
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24 Aug 17
The World Bank has denied reports that it was financing a €1bn project to electrify a railway in Iran.
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24 Aug 17
The World Bank has approved a $20m tranche of funding to modernise government services in Moldova.
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23 Aug 17
The African Development Bank Group has banned China’s Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO) from bidding for contracts for at least a year after a corruption probe.
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22 Aug 17
China’s proposed ’belt and road’ network of surface and sea links to Europe will need measures in place to prevent the spread of epidemics, World Health Organisation director-...
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21 Aug 17
Sri Lanka would be able to meet its current and future electricity demand by use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme and Asian Development Bank.
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21 Aug 17
The World Bank has signed a zero-interest $200m credit with Myanmar to help with programmes that include better public debt management, increased tax collection and stronger public finance management.
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21 Aug 17
Africa cannot “develop in the dark”, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said, explaining the bank’s emphasis on investment in electricity.
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18 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an agreement that will allow the bank to increase its climate financing in developing member countries.
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18 Aug 17
The Philippine government has launched a new catastrophe risk insurance programme to help it respond to losses from natural disasters.
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18 Aug 17
More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
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18 Aug 17
More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
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15 Aug 17
The international community must act now to stop the spread of cholera in war-torn Yemen, the UK’s international development secretary has said.
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15 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank has issued two types of green bond, raising $1.25bn to finance climate change projects.
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11 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to loan Bangladesh $200m to strengthen municipal infrastructure, service delivery and governance in 35 localities.
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11 Aug 17
Three Danish pension funds have combined to create a $550m vehicle for infrastructure investments in Africa.
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10 Aug 17
The UK government has accepted a set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of its aid work in Somalia.
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8 Aug 17
International development secretary Priti Patel has allocated a further £100m to aid world-wide eradication of polio.
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8 Aug 17
British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
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7 Aug 17
Tunisia’s growth is slowly improving, but strong consumption is fuelling inflation and the public sector wage bill is among the world’s highest by proportion of GDP, the International...
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7 Aug 17
The World Bank has issued Mexico with catastrophe bonds worth $360m to protect in against financial losses from earthquakes and tropical cyclones.
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7 Aug 17
Belize must make long-term plans to gain the greatest benefit from and protect its natural resources, the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank has stressed, following an...
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4 Aug 17
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted $78m to Somalia and South Sudan for drought resilience and the alleviation of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
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4 Aug 17
Nigeria should act urgently to develop policies to enhance its economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund has said.
24 Aug 17The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $400m loan to support renovation and electrification work of an urban railway in Argentina.
24 Aug 17People are being driven by the effects of drought to flee Central America into the United States, the World Food Programme has said.
24 Aug 17The World Bank has denied reports that it was financing a €1bn project to electrify a railway in Iran.
24 Aug 17The World Bank has approved a $20m tranche of funding to modernise government services in Moldova.
23 Aug 17The African Development Bank Group has banned China’s Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO) from bidding for contracts for at least a year after a corruption probe.
22 Aug 17China’s proposed ’belt and road’ network of surface and sea links to Europe will need measures in place to prevent the spread of epidemics, World Health Organisation director-...
21 Aug 17Sri Lanka would be able to meet its current and future electricity demand by use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme and Asian Development Bank.
21 Aug 17The World Bank has signed a zero-interest $200m credit with Myanmar to help with programmes that include better public debt management, increased tax collection and stronger public finance management.
21 Aug 17Africa cannot “develop in the dark”, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said, explaining the bank’s emphasis on investment in electricity.
18 Aug 17The Asian Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an agreement that will allow the bank to increase its climate financing in developing member countries.
18 Aug 17The Philippine government has launched a new catastrophe risk insurance programme to help it respond to losses from natural disasters.
18 Aug 17More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
18 Aug 17More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
15 Aug 17The international community must act now to stop the spread of cholera in war-torn Yemen, the UK’s international development secretary has said.
11 Aug 17The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to loan Bangladesh $200m to strengthen municipal infrastructure, service delivery and governance in 35 localities.
11 Aug 17Three Danish pension funds have combined to create a $550m vehicle for infrastructure investments in Africa.
10 Aug 17The UK government has accepted a set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of its aid work in Somalia.
8 Aug 17International development secretary Priti Patel has allocated a further £100m to aid world-wide eradication of polio.
8 Aug 17British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
7 Aug 17Tunisia’s growth is slowly improving, but strong consumption is fuelling inflation and the public sector wage bill is among the world’s highest by proportion of GDP, the International...
7 Aug 17The World Bank has issued Mexico with catastrophe bonds worth $360m to protect in against financial losses from earthquakes and tropical cyclones.
7 Aug 17Belize must make long-term plans to gain the greatest benefit from and protect its natural resources, the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank has stressed, following an...
4 Aug 17The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted $78m to Somalia and South Sudan for drought resilience and the alleviation of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
4 Aug 17Nigeria should act urgently to develop policies to enhance its economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund has said.
