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The World Bank on Thursday said it approved new initiatives to allow member countries hit by natural disasters and other shocks to quickly access emergency funds from their existing loan programs to help them respond to an increasingly crisis-prone world. The enhancements to the bank's Crisis Preparedness and Response Toolkit would allow countries to immediately receive up to 10% of undisbursed funds from an existing project loan or other facility for emergency response. World Bank Managi...

Sitharaman met the group, led by former United States (US) treasury secretary Lawrence Summers and veteran Indian policymaker N.K. Singh over the weekend in Washington DC before departing for India.