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Angolan model viewed as early example of Chinese debt-trap tactics
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], July 20 (ANI): Angola is retreating in terms of its relations with China as the relationship was forged by Beijing for purely serving strategic self-interest in the early 2000s, and has been labelled a 'marriage of convenience.
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World Bank approves USD 200 million to spur agricultural growth in Pakista
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 17 (ANI): The World Bank has approved USD 200 million to spur agricultural growth in Pakistan's Punjab province amid the dwindling economy of the country.
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UNDP, World Bank sign deal for USD 20mn to support Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 16 (ANI): The United Nations Development Progamme (UNDP) has signed a USD 20 million partnership agreement with the World Bank to support humanitarian, economic, and social development initiatives across all eight regions and 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
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Pandemic, supply disruptions pose risk to food security; urgent actions ne
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): The Covid-19 pandemic, its resultant interruption in international supply chains, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine severely disrupting food, fuel and fertilizer markets, countries across the world now need to strengthen safety nets, facilitate trade, boost food
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Growth in developing economies likely to halve in 2022, says World Bank re
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US)], July 14 (ANI): The growth in emerging and developing economies are expected to roughly halve to 3.4 per cent in 2022 in comparison to 6.6 per cent the previous year, as the spillover effects led by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has adversely affected these nations, the Wo
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces partnership with World Bank'
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization that produces the Golden Globes, is set to jointly sponsor a series of events with the World Bank to promote the growth of educational entertainment programming.
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World Bank approves USD 1.03 billion to South Asia for regional trade, con
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): The World Bank on Tuesday approved USD 1.03 billion of financing to improve regional trade in Bangladesh and Nepal by reducing trade and transport costs and transit time along the regional corridors.
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World Bank to double educational funding for Central, West Africa
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Accra [Ghana], June 28 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Bank Group seeks to double its funding for education in the Western and Central African region by 2025 to accelerate the work of educational reforms, a senior official of the bank said here late Monday.
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Conspiracies were hatched to tarnish my family's name: Sheikh Hasina on Pa
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 25 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the landmark Padma bridge which is being termed the pride of the country and said that conspiracies were hatched to tarnish the name of her family.
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Turkish firms file complaint against Pakistan in World Bank over 'mismanag
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 23 (ANI): Two Turkish firms have filed a complaint in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which is a part of the World Bank Group, seeking USD 230 million against Pakistan under the strong claims of "mismanagement by the previous
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South Africa to spend USD 480 million World Bank loan on COVID-19 vaccines
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], June 16 (ANI/Xinhua): South African government will use 480 million US dollars of the World Bank loan to pay for COVID-19 vaccines purchased between December 2020 and June 2021 and other costs associated with the vaccines, a health official said on Thursday.
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USD 150 million aid by World Bank comes as relief to Afghan farmers under
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 15 (ANI): The World Bank has granted USD 150 million in aid to Afghan farmers as food security continues to plummet in the country due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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