The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
A letter of protest Was written on May 9, to the World Bank (W8) president James Wolfensohn, by the International Rivers Network and the human rights group Witness for Peace, calling for an independent investigation into the WB's involvement in the building of Guatemala's infamous Chixoy dam, which saw hundreds …
'Species 2000' is the latest UN/World Bank venture to take an integrated look at the world's biodiversity. The current tally puts the total number of plants, animals, fungi and other microorganisms at about 13.5 million species; estimates had varied anywhere between seven to 20 million. The new venture proposes to …
THE simple shield of a net soaked in insecticide could save thousands of children from becoming targets of malarial carriers, reveals a study backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. Extensiv6 studies in Kenya, Ghana and Gambia where bednets impregnated with …
The announcement of the 10- year long, us $25 billion Africa Development Initiative comes as a much needed helping hand for a continent sinking into the quagmire of increasing debt and poverty. The joint programme involving the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and its own agencies, aims at setting …
NATURE which inspires keen sentiments in many a poet and environmental activist, is now the subject of an annual report of the World Bank (WB) group. Reading the tedious report, one gets the impression that institutions concerned with the environment are now all- pervasive. Indeed, the report is an outcry …
THE World Bank's (wB) staff have recently prepared a report -Mainstreaming the environment -docu- menting the progress made by the Bank in its effort to emerge as an active partner in implementing the Rio commitments for devel- opment which is environ- mentally sustainable. It is primarily an annual exercise which …
MUCH water has flown under the bridge ever since the Flood Action Plan (FAP) - jointly developed by the World Bank (WB) and the Bangladesh government - was launched in 1988 in Bangladesh. The FAP can be fruitfully implemented only if its coordinators succeed in involving the people: this verdict …
Frequent floods has left the Bangladeshis in a state of utter despair. Pitching in to help is the World Bank which recently announced the approval of a US $121.9 million credit. The credit will be used mainly to protect the river banks from erosion and also to build institutions devoted …
The sudden decision of the World Bank (WB) to revoke the decision to shift the tribals inside the core areas of the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR), recently put the district administration and the state government in a tight spot. A state forest department official said, "First, the Bank told us …
D Southgate and H L Clark pointed out that "the present conservation paradigm, was "an attempt to transplant national parks, a rich country institution, to an alien setting", and that 'traditionally, defined, a park is a natural area where no people ... live or work". Using the example of the …
Ivory Coast has one of the best telephone networks in Africa, yet, the Internet revolution seems to have swept past it. In fact only 12 of Africa's 54 countries are linked to the Internet, raising fears in international policy circles of a further marginalisation of the continent. The two major …
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Bangladesh wom retain a sluggish annual gross domes product (GDP) rate below five per a unless it improves its pace of refom warns the World Bank (WB). A rece study conducted by WH foresees Ah, GDP growth rate at 4.7 per cent 1996-97 in the absence of a bold approach …
ONE-THIRD of all Africans are undernourished. It is shocking to learn how rapidly and dangerously food security continues to deteriorate, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Soil fertility is on the slide, yields per hectare of principal food crops are declining and population growth has exceeded growth in food production in most …
Future shock could be near at hand for the inhabitants of the Asia and Pacific region. At a seminar on'Mega-cities management in Asia and the Pacific' held on October 24 at Manila, experts maintained that the lack of basic services for hundreds of millions of Asians in large cities were …
In what is termed as the world's highest by electric power Station and also an exi smalls"le power plants, the 600 KW project in Thame, at an altitude of 12,000 feet near the Mount Everest base camp was recently inaugurated in Nepal. The completion of this project would perhaps make …
AS THE 50th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) culminated in late October, the organization struggled to overcome its worst ever financial crisis. If the situation does not improve soon, the world body and its programmes can suffer serious setbacks, senior UN Officials warn. The VN has weathered financial difficulties …
THE World Bank (WE) has made a strong plea for concerted action by the governments of the rich and poor countries alike, to "reverse the long-run trend of widening international inequality." In its World Development Report, 1995, it has argued that the rich countries must preserve open trade relations and …
World Bank, which has for years been accused of being anti-environment be green groups across the planet, Ift now come up with a report to See its green credentials. The Bank provided us $10 billions in loans to earvironmental projects in 62 countries shace the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, W …
