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  About US: The Government of Uganda received credit from the World Bank towards implementation of the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP). The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve the competitiveness of enterprises in Uganda through supporting reforms in priority productive and service sectors geared towards a better investment climate with particular focus on MSMEs. Government is scaling up the existing operations through provision of Additional Financing (...

7:48 am As the world’s leading international development organization, the World Bank Group has committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in its work and workplace, and it has taken a zero-tolerance policy toward racism and any other form of discrimination. Beyond this stated commitment, the Bank is actively exploring what it can do better and how best to effectuate real change on this front. It is critical that the WBG get this right because empowering others and respecting differences...

Multiple security council sotions, 3321 and 2270 and erodes global progress on nuclear proliferation, thiss in reason to think that north korea will change its behavior under the current multilateral sanctions framework. for too long the international community has been reactive in addressing north korea. those days must come to an end. failing to act now on the most pressing security issue in the world may bring catastrophic consequences. we have said this before and it bears repeating. the pol...