Category: The World Bank

PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: An Insider’s Analysis of the World Health Organization’s $31 Billion Pandemic Plan—Garrett Brown

“Global health governance is not fit for purpose, and it doesn’t represent a vast majority of global needs and wants and desires, and people on the ground and what’s going to affect them. It gets captured.” Today I sit down with Garrett Brown, professor of global health policy at the University of Leeds. Brown has…


PREMIERING 4/22 at 7:30PM ET: An Insider’s Analysis of the World Health Organization’s $31 Billion Pandemic Plan—Garrett Brown

“Global health governance is not fit for purpose, and it doesn’t represent a vast majority of global needs and wants and desires, and people on the ground and what’s going to affect them. It gets captured.” Today I sit down with Garrett Brown, professor of global health policy at the University of Leeds. Brown has…


World Bank Approves New Pandemic Preparedness Fund for Poorer Countries

The World Bank on June 30 approved the establishment of a new fund to help low- and middle-income countries in pandemic preparedness, with more than $1 billion already pledged for the fund. The Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) aims to address “critical gaps” in pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR) to strengthen regional and global capacity….


13,000 Mongolians to Benefit From World Bank’s New Digital Economy Project

The World Bank approved a credit of $40.7 million for a digital economy project in Mongolia on Monday.  The project will help to provide skills and literacy training to 13,000 civil servants and citizens in the country. The goal of the Smart Government II Project is to help Mongolia improve online public services to citizens…


13,000 Mongolians to Benefit From World Bank Digital Economy Project

The World Bank approved on June 6 a credit of $40.7 million for a digital economy project in Mongolia that will help to provide skills and literacy training to 13,000 civil servants and citizens. The goal of the Smart Government II Project is to help Mongolia improve online public services to citizens and businesses, boost…


World Bank to Provide $600 Million to Assist Crash-Strapped Sri Lanka

The World Bank has agreed to provide Sri Lanka with $600 million in financial aid to help cover the cost of essential imports as the country’s economic crisis deepened, the Sri Lankan President’s Media Division said Tuesday. The first tranche of $400 million would be released “shortly,” it stated, adding that the World Bank had…


World Bank Says War to Cut Global Growth, Boosts Financing Target

WASHINGTON—The World Bank is reducing its global growth forecast for 2022 by nearly a full percentage point, to 3.2 percent from 4.1 percent, due to the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, World Bank President David Malpass said on Monday. Malpass told reporters on a conference call that the World Bank was responding to the…


World Bank Approves $200 Million in Additional Funding for Ukraine

WASHINGTON—The World Bank on Monday approved nearly $200 million in additional and reprogrammed financing to bolster Ukraine’s support of vulnerable people as Russian forces continued the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two. The funding comes on top of $723 million approved last week and is part of a $3 billion package…