Victoria Kwakwa Gets Top World Bank Post
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim has appointed Victoria Kwakwa as the new Regional Vice President for East Asia and Pacific. Kwakwa, a Ghanaian national, will lead the Bank’s…
World Bank Adopts New Climate Change Action Plan
Climate change poses an enormous challenge to development, says the World Bank. By 2050, the world will have to feed 9 billion people, extend housing and services to 2 billion…
World Bank Supports Gramin Swachh Bharat Mission
According to the government, the project will accelerate efforts to achieve sustained outcomes in sanitation by 2019. The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its…
Report: 400 Million Don’t Have Access to Health Services
A WHO (World Health Organization) and World Bank Group report released last week shows that 400 million people do not have access to essential health services and 6% of people…
Visa Supports the Click for a Cause Program
In an online effort to put new books in the hands of poor children around the world, supporters of Children International helped Visa donate $50,000 towards the purchase of books…