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Africa’s Day 2021: Reversal of COVID-19 Vaccine Inequity World to Gain $9 Trillion by 2025-WTO DG

May 25, 2021 By Evan CHARLES InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general (DG) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Tuesday said the reversal of COVID-19 vaccine  inequity would fetch the world about $9 trillion by 2025. Okonjo-Iweala made this disclosure at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc Africa […]

IMF Says Ed Anderson CFO, IT Department Director to Exit

May 25, 2021/IMF Mr. Ed Anderson, Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Information Technology Department Director (ITD) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has notified Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva of his intention to leave the IMF for personal reasons, upon expiration of his term appointment on June 10. During Mr. Anderson’s […]

Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?

May 15, 2021/EBRD By EBRD multimedia team “Telecommuting”,“quaranteams”, “doomscrolling”, “upperwear” and curating one’s Zoom background have all become a part of our new remote working reality. If we were unnerved by the way digital technology was transforming our world before the pandemic, Covid-19 has only made the speed of change even […]