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World Bank Group President to Visit ChinaWorld Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will visit China from September 15 to 18, focusing on expanding collaboration on one of the most important challenges facing China and the world today - climate change.The presidents first stop will be Shanghai, a city of more than 23.5 million people, which has set firm commitments to low carbon growth. While in Shanghai, Kim will see firsthand how the Bank Group ...

GAFSP Set To Reach More Than 10 Million Farmers across 25 CountriesPartners in the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a multi-donor trust fund established in 2010 to improve food security in the worlds poorest countries, today announced the allocation of $254.5 million in grants to eight countries. The grants will support country-led initiatives to increase agricultural productivity, improve food and nutrition security, and ...

World Bank, Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency Endorse New Initiative on MigrationThe World Bank Group and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) today signaled progress in their collaboration on the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), a new initiative on migration and development issues. KNOMAD is envisioned as a global hub of knowledge and policy expertise on migration.The two institutions ...

WB/Colombia: Support for Fiscal Sustainability to Promote Shared ProsperityAccompanying government efforts to improve collection, management and allocation of budgetary resources for the benefit of the most vulnerableWASHINGTON, September 9, 2013 - The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$600 million loan to strengthen Colombias fiscal capacity. This Development Policy Loan (DPL) was designed to support the Colombian administrations ...

World Bank, Vietnam Signs Credit to Support Pro-Poor InnovationsHanoi, September 6, 2013 - The State Bank of Vietnam and the World Bank today signed a US$55 million credit to improve the quality of life for the poor by provide affordable technological solutions in traditional herbal medicine, information/communication technology applications and agriculture/aquaculture technologies. The credit will help to develop and deliver high performance ...

West Region Aims to Catch Up With Its More Developed Peers in the European Union Over the Next Programming Period 2014-2020TIMISOARA, September 6, 2013—The World Bank and the Agency for Regional Development - Region West, Romania today hosted a closing-project conference in Timi?oara on "Advisory Services on Competitiveness Enhancement and Smart Specialization Policies in the West Region.About 50 participants attended, representing local ...

High Logistics Costs Impede Higher Economic Growth For Indonesia, Says Joint ReportJAKARTA, 6 September 2013 - High logistics costs are a serious impediment to higher economic growth for Indonesia, according to a report launched today by Bandungs Institute of Technology in West Java, in partnership with the World Bank."The costs of logistics across Indonesia account for some 24 per cent of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), higher than in neighboring ...

World Bank Group Launches New Country Partnership Strategy for the Republic of MoldovaA new Country Partnership Strategy for the Republic of Moldova for 2014-17 was discussed today by the World Bank Groups Board of Executive Directors. The four-year strategy will guide the World Bank Groups support to the country. The new strategy foresees total financial support by the World Bank Group of US$570 million, with access to the International ...

Health Landscape in Six Regions Reveals Rapid Progress Made and Daunting Challenges from Hundreds of Diseases, Injuries, Risk FactorsIn the Middle East and North Africa, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are causing a massive amount of premature death and disability. People in Latin America and the Caribbean are living longer on the whole, yet they face increasing threats from chronic diseases. Mortality has declined in many South Asian ...

Countries in East Asia and Pacific Region Show Mixed Progress in Combatting Health ChallengesIn the East Asia and Pacific region, most diseases that affect children rapidly declined over the past two decades, but chronic diseases are killing more people prematurely and causing increasing disability.Demographic changes, such as population growth and increasing average age, have likely contributed to the substantial rise of non-communicable ...

Rising Chronic Disease and a Gender Gap in Health Take a Growing Toll in Eastern Europe and Central AsiaMen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are more likely to die prematurely than women, a trend driven by rising levels of chronic diseases connected to alcohol use, poor diets, and smoking.In the region, the number of years of healthy life lost because of ischemic heart disease, or coronary artery disease, increased 18% between 1990 and 2010, ...

In Middle East and North Africa, Health Challenges are Becoming Similar to Those in Western CountriesIn the Middle East and North Africa region, non-communicable diseases such as heart disease (up by 44%), stroke (up 35%), and diabetes (up 87%) are causing more premature death and disability than they did in the past. Potentially preventable risk factors such as poor diets, high blood pressure, high body mass index (an indicator of obesity and ...

Latin Americans, Except for Young Males, Living Much Longer TodayWith the exception of young men, most people in Latin America and the Caribbean are living much longer today than 40 years ago. The mortality rate has dropped by at least 80 percent for children 4 years old or younger and by more than 50 percent for women between the ages of 20 and 44. For men between the ages of 15 and 19, however, the mortality rate has increased by 1 percent, ...

Despite Progress, Childhood Diseases Remain Major Threat in Sub-Saharan AfricaChildren in sub-Saharan Africa are now less likely to die from diarrhea and pneumonia, but these illnesses are still the most common causes of childhood death and sickness in most African countries, according to a new report published today.Loss of health due to diarrheal diseases dropped 34% between 1990 and 2010, lower respiratory infections (LRIs) such as pneumonia ...

Non-Communicable Diseases Take Increasing Toll in South Asia as Region Continues to Grapple with Diseases of PovertyPeople are living longer in South Asian countries than ever before, and the region has made tremendous progress in reducing premature death and disability from communicable and nutritional diseases such as pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, and malnutrition. At the same time, early death and illness from non-communicable diseases and ...

Donation of Computer Equipment to Charitable/Non-Profit Organizations in Bosnia and HerzegovinaThe World Bank office in Bosnia and Herzegovina invites charitable/non-profit organizations active in Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for a donation of used computer equipment. The equipment will be donated to one or more organizations on an as-is, where-is condition, with no warranty or guarantee from the World Bank. The following equipment will be ...

India: New World Bank vice president for South Asia region visits IndiaNew Delhi, 02 August, 2013: The World Banks new vice president for the South Asia region, Philippe Le Houérou, was in India last week to meet with Indian policymakers and understand the countrys development priorities. This was Le Houérous first visit to India after assuming charge as vice president in July this year.At the end of his week-long trip that ended Friday, Le ...

Study Reveals Large, Untapped Potential for Water and Sanitation Services for the Worlds PoorMany of the poorest, un-served people in developing countries, for whom public water and sanitation services are out of reach, could increasingly rely on service provision through the domestic private sector. A new report today released by the World Banks Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) finds that this ...

Sri Lanka: World Bank Organizes the Second Global Agriculture Financing Forum 2013 125 banking professionals from 31 countries are currently participating in a weeklong technical conference titled Investing in Agriculture Profitably. This conference is managed by the World Bank through AgriFin and supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with Hatton National Bank as the local host.Financing Agriculture Forum 2013 is designed as a ...

New Transmission Line Launched In Western Ukraine as Part of World Bank-Supported Power Transmission Network UpgradeConstruction of a new high voltage 72.9-km-long power transmission line and expansion of a 330-kilovolt substation in Bar have been completed in South-western Ukraine. The completed improvements are part of a much larger on-going US$200 million Power Transmission Project supported by the World Bank. The Bar substation is a bridge ...