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Charting Africa’s Progress: African Development Bank launches MapAfrica 2.0

30/6/2016/AfDB The African Development Bank has released a new online tool that enables anyone in the world to see at a glance how the Bank’s projects are boosting Africa’s economies and making Africans’ lives better. MapAfrica 2.0 is an interactive online portal that shows where the Bank is making an […]

Paris Club 60th Anniversary—Keynote Address by Christine Lagarde, MD IMF

July 1, 2016/IMF I want to thank the Secretariat for hosting this important celebration, which is a celebration both of six decades of very successful collective action among official creditors and of Korea’s accession as a new member to the Paris Club. The venue – the Centre de Conferences Pierre […]

Wall Street slightly higher as focus shifts from Brexit

June 30, 2016/Reuters U.S. stocks were slightly higher at the open on Thursday as investors turned their focus to broader economic factors and Brexit took a backseat. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was up 32.09 points, or 0.18 percent, at 17,726.77, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 5.17 points, […]