IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings 2024 – Watch the replay
Oct 17, 2024 · The World Bank Group will double its agri-finance and agribusiness commitments to $9 billion annually by 2030. New targets to accelerate the use of broadband internet, social protection programs, and capital for women by 2030. Spain made an early pledge of €400 million, nearly 40 percent increase, to the International Development Association.
Tatiana Rosito - World Bank Live
Featured on: April 03, 2024. Tatiana Rosito has been Secretary for International Affairs at Brazil’s Ministry of Finance since January 2023. She is Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI). She is a diplomat and an economist and worked as a consultant at the New Development Bank (NDB) in Shanghai from 2020 to ...
Liao Min - World Bank Live
Featured on: April 03, 2024. Prior to his current role as the Vice Minister, Office of the Central Leading Commission for Finance and Economy and Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China, Mr. Liao had a wide working experience in financial industry, ranging from the central bank, banking regulatory commission, the ...
Business Ready 2024 – New Data for a Dynamic Private Sector
A well-functioning and well-regulated private sector is essential to accelerating economic growth, boosting productivity, and reducing carbon emissions. Yet, as the world grapples with the slowest growth rate in three decades, this engine of growth struggles to regain its footing. The World Bank’s Business Ready 2024 (B-READY) report assesses ...
Event | Women Transforming the World | World Bank Live
Oct 24, 2024 · In a discussion with Ministers from Nigeria, Togo, and the UK, World Bank Group President Ajay Banga announced a set of actions and goals to boost economic opportunities for more women – aligned with its new Gender Strategy, dedicated to expanding women’s participation in the global economy. By 2030, the World Bank Group aims to: Enable 300 ...
World Bank Group's Country Climate and Development Reports
Nov 8, 2022 · The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are new core diagnostic reports that integrate climate change and development considerations. They will help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation while delivering on broader development goals.
Veronica Waeni Nzioki - World Bank Live
Jun 18, 2024 · Veronica Waeni Nzioki. Featured on: June 18, 2024. Veronica Waeni Nzioki is a diplomat and researcher from Kenya. She is presently deployed at the Permanent Mission of Kenya to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva. She leads the humanitarian affairs portfolio. Veronica has worked with different sectors ...
Lee C. Buchheit | World Bank Live
Apr 26, 2023 · Lee C. Buchheit retired in 2019 after a 43-year legal career. During his career, Mr. Buchheit worked on more than two dozen sovereign-debt restructurings. He led the legal teams advising Greece in the 2012 restructuring of government bonds totaling more than 206 billion euros (the largest sovereign-debt workout in history).
Joseph Stiglitz - World Bank Live
Apr 24, 2015 · Joseph E. Stiglitz received his Ph.D from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Award. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought.
Nadia Fettah - World Bank Live
H.E. Nadia Fettah, appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI on October 7, 2021, is the first woman appointed to this position in the Kingdom of Morocco. Born in 1971, H.E. Nadia Fettah was the Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, Air Transport, and Social Economy between 2019 and 2021. A high school graduate from the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales” in Paris in …