Updates

Board Approves AfDB Group’s industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025

July 25, 2016/AfDB Africa’s industrialization agenda, one of the Bank Group’s top priorities for the continent’s economic transformation, received a boost this week with the approval of the Bank Group’s Industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025. The Strategy, approved by the AfDB’s Board on Thursday, 14 July 2016, represents a roadmap […]

IMF Executive Board Modifies Methodology for Determining New Currency Amounts in the SDR Valuation Basket

July 25, 2016/IMF On July 20, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) adopted a decision amending the rounding methodology for determining currency amounts in the Special Drawing Right (SDR) basket to make it less complex and also to more closely align the currency weights with those […]

Beer: Facts Women Must Know

July 25, 2016/TPT International A good percentage of women drink beer, however many know their limitations. It is said that about 75% of women over estimate the calorie content of beer. They believe it is beer that gave their husbands the abdominal fat “beer belly”, not knowing that it is […]