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 […]
“You can count on the AfDB as partner in delivering education for Africa”, says Adesina
14/4/2016/AfDB Partnership – between the public, the private and the ‘third’ sector of NGOs and Foundations – was the theme of an event hosted by the Global Business Coalition for Education on Thursday in Washington. “We need to preach revolution, as things have to change”, said the Portland Trust. The […]
