Thu Apr 7, 2016/Reuters By Camillus Eboh Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has received details of the long-awaited 2016 budget bill which he wanted to check before signing into law, his assistant said on Thursday, as lawmakers blamed delays on “sloppy” work by government officials. Buhari withdrew his original budget bill […]
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Colombian Cities Adopt Electronic Payments for Mass Transportation
April 7, 2016/MasterCard By Mateo Lleras Colombia leads the integration of electronic payments in transportation systems in Latin America, thanks to the implementation of MasterCard technology in several cities. Today Colombians can access mass transportation systems such as the SITP in Bogota, Mío in Cali, TransMetro in Barranquilla and more […]
Lagarde Appoints Historians to Chronicle “Defining Moments” in Fund’s History
April 7, 2016/IMF Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), today announced the appointment of Professor Harold James of Princeton University and Atish (Rex) Ghosh, Assistant Director in the Research Department, as the new IMF historians. They will replace retired historian James Boughton, and both will […]
