Washington, DC —Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments in Africa to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps Integrating digital payments into the economies of emerging.
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2014 – The World Bank Group today committed $5 billion in new technical and financial support for energy projects in six African countries– Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia,.
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$495.3 million International Development Association (IDA*) credit to improve farmers’ access to irrigation and drainage services, strengthen institutional arrangements for.
Nineteen university-based African Centers of Excellence (ACE) across seven countries in West and Central Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Togo and Cameroon) will receive a combined grant.
World Bank has announced a $300 million loan for micro and small scale enterprises (MSEs) in remote and rural areas in Egypt, with the aim of boosting job opportunities in.
The World Bank has postponed a $90m (£54m) loan to Uganda over its tough anti-gay law, which has drawn criticism from around the world. World Bank officials said they wanted.
The World Bank will partner with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Environment to raise a $100 million clean technology fund for the development of alternative energy sources in the oil-rich country,.
If African leaders can draft an accord aimed at taking down current cross-border trade hurdles in sub-Saharan Africa, the continent will earn an additional $20 billion in annual earnings, according.
The World Bank has ranked Nigeria 147th among the best places for doing business. It also ranked the country as the 122nd for best countries to start a business. The.
*As Nigeria secures $1.4bn support At a major forum convened by the World Bank Group at the just concluded IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington DC, bankers, financial leaders.
