World Bank money available for tourism and agriculture projects
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) under its Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) project and in association with the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment is inviting applications for community enterprises in...Read more...
Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older
QIANTUN, China, May 19 (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his clothes, bringing meals to his bed, and keeping him company - a routine he'll keep...Read more...
county_western World Bank awards Sh5m grant for coffee factory
The World Bank has awarded a Sh5 million grant for the construction of a new coffee factory in Mt Elgon. The grant for the construction of Kitaban Coffee Factory in Kapsokwony Division has been channelled through Western Kenya...Read more...
Cambodias great land grab
Bangkok Post: Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company...Read more...
Retired hot dog buses reborn
Many of Hong Kong's unairconditioned buses, nicknamed 'hot dog' buses in Cantonese due to their heat in summer, were retired years ago after serving local passengers for decades.Kowloon Motor Bus Company (KMB) has provided...Read more...
Haiti revising outdated mining laws
Haiti's government is revising its outdated mining laws with help from the World Bank. The bank said in a brief statement it is supporting the government so it can develop mining in the country's northeastern mountains,...Read more...
World Bank: Global Development Horizons - Capital for the Future - Saving and Investment in an...
“World Bank. 2013. Global Development Horizons : Capital for the Future - Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World. © Washington, DC. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13431 License: CC BY 3.0...Read more...
With contrasting socio-economic policies, India & China bank on youth to power growth
By Harish Nambiar A persuasive piece on Fareed Zakaria's blog of his popular foreign affairs show on CNN, GPS, argues that, though World Bank figures suggest that global poverty fell by a remarkable 40% from about 2 billion to...Read more...
Education Sector estimated at $44.9b in GCC
4 million students enrol every year in basic education in region. A report issued by KFH-Research noted that the volume of education market in the GCC is 45 billion of total volume of the MENA region … Continue reading → The...Read more...
PM denies family involvement in Padma graft
Published : Monday, 20 May 2013 Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina in an interview with Canadian television CBC has denied any involvement of her family members and that of Awami League (AL) in corruption in the Padma Bridge...Read more...
Control the rivers, control the world
• “Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization,” by Steven Solomon. Copyright 2010, Harper Collins Publishers, 596 pages, $17.99 paperback The common perception is that China wants control of Tibet for political...Read more...
Philippines Economy: Booming, But Poverty and Unemployment Remain Problematic
Intellasia East Asia News Shortly after my piece on the Philippines’ continuing structural economic vulnerabilities, which generated considerable controversy and heated discussions among experts and observers alike, the...Read more...
Sports Briefing | Hockey Sweden Tops Finland and Advances to World Hockey Championship Final
More Latin America News RSS Famous artists bring big money at auction Latin America News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013 Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat smashed all previous auction records...Read more...
Downloads Compact International Agricultural Research Library, Basic Retrospective Set 1962-1986...
Compact International Agricultural Research Library, Basic Retrospective Set 1962-1986 (Ciarl Brs book download World Bank Download Compact International Agricultural Research Library, Basic Retrospective Set 1962-1986 (Ciarl...Read more...
Training workshop held to improve professional education
The Education Ministry held a joint workshop to identify the challenges that must be overcome to improve professional and technical development courses offered by Government and private schools in Kabul. The Deputy Minister of...Read more...
Laghari hopes PML-N govt will give more autonomy to HEC
ISLAMABAD Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Javaid R. Laghari pins high hopes on the upcoming government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which has committed greater autonomy to the commission in its manifesto. In an...Read more...
Harvard University students to get tips from Indian public enterprises
Students at the prestigious Harvard University will soon get tips on becoming socially responsible corporate citizens from Indian Central Public Sector Enterprises. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has been invited to...Read more...
WORLD BANK REPORT: Matters arising
“Nigerian economic statistics reveal a puzzling contrast between rapid economic growth and quite minimal welfare improvements for much of the population. Annual growth rates that averaged over seven percent in official data...Read more...
WB team meets BEMEA
DHAKA: A delegation of World Bank is holding a meeting with senior officials of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Sunday afternoon. The participants of the meeting, which started at 1:00pm,...Read more...
'Red-Dead project stakeholders to decide on next move in June'
Final drafts of meta-study to be ready by end of this month — source AMMAN — Final drafts of the meta-study on the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Programme will be ready by the end of this month, a source at the...Read more...
What’s ‘Development’ With Rights Abuses Along the Way
A grandmother in Cambodia told me recently, "I just want you to know my story in case something happens and I am gone." Police and government officials have threatened and harassed "Kunthea" for her protests against government...Read more...
Masdar set to collaborate with IFC
by Adam Lane on May 19, 2013 Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. The deal will see...Read more...
Fun with colonoscopies (video)
A guy got bored while waiting for his wife’s colonoscopy. Then this happened. . Editor of AMERICAblog, joint JD/MSFS from Georgetown, worked in the US Senate, World Bank, Children's Defense Fund, and as a stringer for the...Read more...
Work on giant hydro dam in DR Congo to start in 2015
PARIS AFP - Work on the worlds biggest hydroelectric dam will start in October 2015 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a statement said in Paris after talks between DR Congo and international officials.The meeting on the...Read more...
Scholarships and funding opportunities at Manchester University in United Kingdom Britain
Funding Opportunities for Studies in International Development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) Equity and Merit Scholarships for Study by Distance Learning (Jan 2014 start) – Applicants from...Read more...
Boosting Ethiopia's economy, one shoe at a time
ADDIS ABABA AFP - For Bethlehem Tilahun, the answer to ending poverty in Africa is not aid or sympathy or donations from the West. Its shoes.Specifically, building a successful shoe manufacturing business that creates jobs,...Read more...
Road Maps Run Afoul of Bureaucratic Swamp
An ambitious plan to make Russia one of the top 20 countries on the World Bank's ease of doing business rating by 2018 - up from last years ranking of 160th - may be at risk as midlevel bureaucrats slow execution on efforts to...Read more...
Unattained MDGS
Addis Fortune]The 10th edition of the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) was launched on Tuesday May 7, 2013 at the Addis Abeba University’s Faculty of Business and Economics. The report was produced jointly by the World Bank (WB)...Read more...
The great Cambodia land grab
Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: “It’s all gone. The company has it now.”...Read more...
Bank of Israel Spokesman Named to World Bank Directors
It was announced, Sunday, that Spokesman Yossi Saadon of the Bank of Israel will be appointed to be Israel's representative on the board of directors of the World Bank in Washington, DC. Following a selection process within the...Read more...
