Monday, June 1, 2015
‘The Cash Dividend’, a 2012 World Bank report, stated that “experiences—many relatively successful—reveal that the question is not whether cash transfers can be used in the region [sub-Saharan Africa], but how they should be used, and how they can...
Friday, May 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2015 — The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$50 million credit to support the design of a new national social safety net program for Cote d’Ivoire, which aims to deliver targeted cash transfers and...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved continuing support to Ghana as the West African nation seeks to further reduce poverty and expand social opportunities for the poorest people through public works...
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Egypt signed with the World Bank Friday a $400 million agreement for a project set to benefit 1.5 million poor Egyptian families.
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Friday, March 20, 2015
The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors on March 19 approved a US$6 million International Development Association (IDA) grant for the Union of Comoros to increase access to social safety nets focusing on improving communities’ productive and...
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Parliament approved a $50 million loan to finance social interventions or programmes like the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP).
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
The UNICEF Myanmar has called for implementing the first-ever National Social Protection strategy including payments for children, disables and the elderly, with the new sufficient funding for 2015-16 fiscal year, official media reported Thursday...
Friday, February 27, 2015
Turkey has been classified as an emerging country with a fair economic performance for the past decade. In the period from 2002 to 2014, Turkey has secured successive high gross domestic product increase rates, except the years of 2008 and 2009, which is...
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Dakar — The Government of Senegal launched today a 40.5 million dollar International Development Association (IDA) credit to help Senegal establish the building blocks for a national social safety net system and provide targeted cash transfers to poor...
Friday, December 12, 2014
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $150 million loan to the Dominican Republic to gradually consolidate social security coverage and improve efficiency in health care spending by deepening reforms the government has been...
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