World Bank Supports Increased Financing for Medium & Small Businesses in Nigeria

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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$500 million International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) credit…

New Report Identifies Major Clean-Tech Market Opportunity for Small Businesses in Developing Countries

10 years ago

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries can generate significant growth and create jobs by seizing a potential $1.6…

New UN Report Calls for Major Changes in Global Economic Governance, Management

10 years ago

Six years after the start of the global economic and financial crisis, the world economy has still not found a…

World Bank Group, FAO Aim to Boost Women’s Land Ownership in Central Europe

10 years ago

Women's land ownership in the Western Balkans often involves a complex web of statutory, customary, and religious laws. World Bank…

What Does Carbon Pricing Success Look Like? Ask These Leaders

10 years ago

British Columbia, Sweden, California and China have been pioneering carbon pricing systems to lower emissions and help shift their economies…

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Liquidity Glut, Infrastructure Finance Drought and Development Banks

10 years ago

The world economy faces huge infrastructure financing needs that are not being matched on the supply side. Emerging market economies,…

Chollywood: Chinese Film Industry Set to Expand Rapidly

10 years ago

The French Lumière Brothers are credited with enabling the birth of modern cinema but since the 1920s this is indisputably…

How Much Does Pollution Cost?

10 years ago

As it becomes increasingly necessary to reduce emissions, organizations and governments are looking for ways to compensate for the harmful…

The IT Scene in China: Alibaba’s New ‘Open Sesame’ Financing

10 years ago

Alibaba is China’s largest e-commerce company. It is a privately owned Hangzhou-based group of Internet-based e-commerce businesses which, amazingly enough,…

Strategy&: Meeting the Big Data Challenge

10 years ago

Recent research on Big Data should sound an alarm bell for companies. On the one hand, there is a link…