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Building a green, resilient, and inclusive recovery: Speech by World Bank Group President David Malpass LISTEN Introduction Thank you, Baroness Shafik. It’s a pleasure to be here with you, a distinguished alumna of the World Bank Group, and other distinguished World Bank alumni at LSE including Lord Stern, our former Chief Economist. And thanks to the London School of Economics for hosting me virtually. Today, I will set the stage ahead of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings. This provid...

6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Ghana and Pakistan’s return to international debt markets this week, a year after COVID slammed them shut, has been an encouraging sign for the world’s poorest countries, but investors still need convincing. A teacher guides a student who walks on circles painted to maintain safe distance as secondary schools reopen amid the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, in Karachi, Pakistan January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro As the pandemic enters its second y...

10 minute read Ministers from Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, the European Union, Fiji, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malawi, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, United Arab Emirates, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, and h...

Posted on April 1, 2021 New UNDP study reveals the magnitude of limited debt relief eligibility for developing economies Two-thirds of external ‘debt service at risk’ is not covered by current relief initiatives, putting at risk years of progress on poverty and the future resources needed to deal with climate change Photo: UNDP Viet Nam/Tran Vinh Nghia   Washington — Bold new mechanisms are urgently needed to help low- and middle-income countries address crippling debt, sharply worsened...

Yellen says poor nations need COVID-19 aid Jordan Williams © Getty Images Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday said poorer nations will need continued coronavirus relief given the pandemics role in widening economic inequality everywhere. Yellen made the comments during a discussion with interfaith leaders as well as leaders from nonprofit Jubilee USA, according to a readout of the meeting posted by the Treasury Department. "The Secreta...

From the International Monetary FundBy Kristalina Georgieva

March, 3, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) - Just when developing economies were ready to bask in the post-COVID rebound in global growth, in sweeps a bond market blaze to scorch them again. Most major investment banks were predicting a stellar 2021 for emerging market assets as long as one crucial snag - global borrowing costs rising too fast - was avoided. Well guess what, they are on a tear. February saw their steepest monthly gain since Donald Trump’s shock 2016 U.S. presidential election win and, t...

T-bills’ triumph closes financial loopholes The market determined treasury bills (TBills) has continued to mushroom leading to the expansion of the stock to 58.9 billion birr as of the end of the first half of the budget year. The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) that introduced the market determined TBills in December 2019 has also commenced the bills with maturity of 364 days in the second quarter of the 2020/21 financial year. The latest Public Sector Debt Statistical Bulletin of the Min...

* Rising U.S. bond yields dampen investor attraction * EMs already reeling from defaults, tourism hit * But repeat of 2013 taper tantrum not anticipated * “Real” U.S. yields still low * Current account deficits mostly reversed LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Just when developing economies were ready to bask in the post-COVID rebound in global growth, in sweeps a bond market blaze to scorch them again. Most major investment banks were predicting a stellar 2021 for emerging market assets as long ...

DUBAI: Just when developing economies were ready to bask in the post-COVID rebound in global growth, in sweeps a bond market blaze to scorch them again. Most major investment banks were predicting a stellar 2021 for emerging market assets as long as one crucial snag — global borrowing costs rising too fast — was avoided. Well guess what, they are on a tear.