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Cebu BRT back on track?

The Manila Times 15 Jan 2025
19), the World Bank office here released an Implementation Status Report (ISR) for the Cebu BRT project, the first since late June ... 19, was most likely the product of a World Bank mission to Cebu on Nov.
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Botswana records grim gender-based violence statistics

Beijing News 15 Jan 2025
During the same period, 93 rapes were reported ... A 2023 report by the World Bank said more than 42% of women in east and southern Africa experience physical and sexual violence in their lifetime.
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Europe mulls seizing Russia's billions to aid Ukraine

Beijing News 15 Jan 2025
Ukraine's reconstruction costs will reach at least $486 billion over the next decade, according to a February 2024 report by the Ukrainian government, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the United Nations.
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War-ravaged Gaza faces multi-billion dollar reconstruction challenge

RTE 15 Jan 2025
The estimated damage to infrastructure totalled $18.5 billion as of end-January 2024, affecting residential buildings, commerce, industry, and essential services such as education, health, and energy, a UN-World Bank report said.
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Egypt to secure €5.8B from EU for Macro-Financial Assistance mechanism

Egypt Today 14 Jan 2025
These efforts have attracted financial support from key development partners, including the European Union and the World Bank. Al-Mashat reported a 3.5 percent GDP growth during the first quarter of the current fiscal year ...  .  .  . .
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Goldman Sachs plans new structure to sharpen focus on financing

Deccan Herald 13 Jan 2025
Goldman Sachs.<p>The Wall Street giant has ambitions to become one of the biggest players in the increasingly competitive world of financing, the report added.</p><p>The unit will ...
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Introduction to illicit financial flows and global trade

B & FT Online 13 Jan 2025
using traditional banking systems such as hawala – a form of informal value ... The IMF and the World Bank, for example, have estimated that some 2-4 percent of the world’s GDP stems from illicit sources.
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Early-years skills

Dawn 13 Jan 2025
Recent reports have highlighted ‘learning poverty’ in Pakistan ... Recent reports by the World Bank have highlighted ‘learning poverty’ in Pakistan, where 77pc of children are unable to read and understand age-appropriate text by age 10.
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New coffee strategy aims to position country as second-largest global coffee exporter by 2033

Capital Ethiopia 13 Jan 2025
The World Bank recently reported that due to infrequent tree trimming, approximately 80% of Ethiopia’s one million hectares of coffee trees are underproductive ... The World Bank highlights that ...
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Migrant Worker Challenges in Bahrain's Construction Sector: A Trade Union Study Reveals Deep-Rooted Issues

The Daily Tribune - Bahrain 13 Jan 2025
Despite this, Bahrain's ease of obtaining building permits ranks 17th out of 190 countries in the World Bank's Doing Business report.
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Washington’s Attempts to Bully China Will Only Backfire. Mike Whitney

GlobalResearch 13 Jan 2025
A World Bank report recently highlighted the huge drop in global poverty rates from 1980 to 2008, but critics noted that over 100 percent of that decline came from China alone ... It’s the world’s first high-speed commercial line.
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Empowering local governments

Dawn 13 Jan 2025
Meanwhile, in its report titled Poverty Projections for Pakistan, the World Bank noted a 25.3pc poverty rate in 2024, up by seven percentage points from 2023, pushing an additional 13m people into poverty.
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Special visa and income mechanisms to attract leading scientists to Việt Nam: PM

Vietnam News 13 Jan 2025
Since 1990, only 34 economies have escaped the middle-income trap to become high-income nations, while 108 countries have yet to do so, according to the World Bank's latest 2024 report ...VNS. .
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Why transit-oriented development is the answer to global urban sprawl

Hindustan Times 13 Jan 2025
PREMIUM Urban Planning(Francesco Ungaro) ... The World Bank reports that by 2030 an additional 1.2 million square kilometres of urban built-up area is expected to be developed worldwide. However, urban development is not always controlled ... ....

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