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Despite southeast Asia’s runaway economic growth, analysis by the World Bank for GlobalMarkets shows that levelling up female participation in the workforce could add as much as $1,100 per capita to GDP
The World Bank has responded to concerns of vulnerable and small island economies that climate-resilient debt clauses allowing debt service to be suspended need to be less rigid
Two more emerging market governments could join Chile and Uruguay as SLB issuers, drawn by flexibility on use of proceeds
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A $1.9bn IMF loan for Tunisia is frozen, while the government has refused to implement fiscal reforms, leaving the country at risk of default unless it can continue to source finance from other lenders
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Proper ministerial decision-making body would force countries to reach agreement
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As president, Ajay Banga has given the World Bank the highest ambition and clear targets, but reality rarely cooperates. He is trying to drum up support from business and banks. This week in Washington, the Bank must convince wealthier countries to back its mission with more money — but runs the risk of the Annual Meetings being overshadowed by strife over conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East
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With political tensions gripping the world economy and threatening to squeeze even tighter, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva has her work cut out at this week’s annual meeting. If the IMF is to remain relevant and capable, she must strike deals that countries of different political hues and degrees of wealth can live with
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Up to $221bn of external funding could flow from the region's banks
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Spanish bank sees ‘strategic rationale’ in being in Brazil as it looks to up wholesale banking revenues
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