14/4/2016/World Bank As Prepared for Delivery April 14, 2016 Good morning everyone, and welcome to the 2016 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. I would like to first acknowledge our 189th member country — the Pacific island state of Nauru, which officially joined the […]
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World Bank Group to Invest $2.5 Billion in Education Projects Benefiting Adolescent Girls
13/4/2016/World Bank World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today announced that the World Bank Group would invest $2.5 billion over 5 years in education projects that directly benefit adolescent girls, whose empowerment is central to the Bank Group’s development efforts. The announcement, made at the Let Girls Learn event […]
Remittances to developing countries edge up slightly in 2015
13/4/2016/World Bank Remittances to developing countries grew only marginally in 2015, as weak oil prices and other factors strained the earnings of international migrants and their ability to send money home to their families, says the World Bank’s latest edition of the Migration and Development Brief, released today. Officially recorded remittances […]
