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SARAJEVO, March 2 (FENA) - The global flow of reforms in the direction of equal treatment of women through legislation has fallen to the lowest level in the last twenty years, which represents a potential obstacle to economic growth at a critical moment for the world economy, according to a new World Bank report.
It's been two years since the G20 announced a blueprint for creditor countries to cooperate on debt relief for low-income nations. Not only there is no relief, the agreement on debt relief instead emerged as yet another front in a bitter geopolitical tussle between the US and China.
In 2019, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) was hoping to increase its use of data among a diverse group of data users. However, at that time, the Bureau did not have the adequate capacity and technical expertise to make its data more accessible and usable.
Government data—such as data from censuses, surveys, civil registration, and administrative systems—continue to provide the foundation for critical disaster-related statistics. At the same time, new technologies and data sources produced by private entities...
The World Bank (WB) announced this week the appointment of US-French Economist Marianne Fay as its new Director for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay to replace Jordan Schwartz, who will head the Eastern Europe division.