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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…
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Six years after the start of the global economic and financial crisis, the world economy has still not found a…
Women's land ownership in the Western Balkans often involves a complex web of statutory, customary, and religious laws. World Bank…
British Columbia, Sweden, California and China have been pioneering carbon pricing systems to lower emissions and help shift their economies…
The world economy faces huge infrastructure financing needs that are not being matched on the supply side. Emerging market economies,…
The French Lumière Brothers are credited with enabling the birth of modern cinema but since the 1920s this is indisputably…
As it becomes increasingly necessary to reduce emissions, organizations and governments are looking for ways to compensate for the harmful…
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,…