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The World Bank continues to operate in Nicaragua and notes that political unrest in 2018 has caused the economy to contract 3.8 percent prompting concerns that recent efforts to combat poverty levels will be undermined. [5]
A World Bank report into climate change in 2012 noted that (p. xiii) "even with the current mitigation commitments and pledges fully implemented, there is roughly a 20 percent likelihood of exceeding 4 °C by 2100."
The World Bank Group (WBG) has been lending aid and providing means of promoting development to Turkey since July 1950, which began with the implementation of a series of port construction and development projects meant to ignite commercial economy and cultivate stability within the region. These established ports have been integral to the ...
The World Development Report (WDR) is an annual report published since 1978 by the World Bank. Each WDR provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of economic development . Past reports have considered such topics as agriculture, youth, equity, public services delivery, the role of the state, transition economies , labour, infrastructure ...
Afghanistan is a World Bank Group member country. It has received financial support from the organization since 2002. The World Bank provides loans and grants to support its development and reconstruction efforts. The bank aims to help Afghanistan with matters such as poverty reduction, infrastructure development, education, and governance.
One year after the evictions, the bank loaned Lagos authorities $200 million to support the state government’s budget. The World Bank said it was “not a party to the demolition” and that it advised the Lagos government to negotiate with displaced people, leading to compensation for most of those who said they’d been harmed.
In 2019, the World Bank spent nearly 1.3 Billion US dollars on projects in Morocco, there highest amount in the last five years, and more than the combined total spent on projects in 2017 and 2018 combined. [4] Three of the four most expensive projects the World Bank has funded in Morocco have been initiated in the year 2019. [3]
Image credits: BallinFC #10. The Candy Bomber. After World War II, when Berlin was divided, the US and UK airlifted supplies into West Berlin to counter the Soviet blockade.