Finance & Economics

China joins international efforts to end tax evasion

China signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters at a ceremony at the OECD. All G20 countries have now fulfilled the commitment they made at the Cannes G20 Summit to sign the Convention and move towards...

World Bank to Provide Reforms & Results-Based Support to Pakistan

Philippe H. Le Houérou, new Vice President of World Bank Group’s South Asia Region made an introductory visit to Pakistan from August 21 to 24, 2013. He was accompanied during this trip by Isabel M. Guerrero, the outgoing Vice President.

Cambodia Urges Closer ASEAN Ties With China

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Future Flood Losses in Major Coastal Cities

Climate change combined with rapid population increases, economic growth and land subsidence could lead to a more than 9-fold increase in the global risk of floods in large port cities between now and 2050.

High Speed Broadband Goes Live in Tonga

The World Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Tonga Cable Corporation (TCC), media and others joined the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga at a ceremony at the Tonga Cable Limited building to celebrate the arrival of high speed internet...

Sri Lanka: World Bank Organizes the Second Global Agriculture Financing Forum 2013

125 banking professionals from 31 countries are currently participating in a weeklong technical conference titled ‘Investing in Agriculture Profitably’. This conference is managed by the World Bank through AgriFin and supported by the Bill and Melinda...

Why the Hysteria on Wall Street?

The scene would have been hilarious if the stakes weren't so high. Bevies of bankers flocked to a hearing room at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Atlanta Aug. 12, to try to block a pro-Glass-Steagall resolution pending before that...

UK Apprenticeships score top marks from businesses and apprentices

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World Bank Group Provided Strong Support to Europe and Central Asia in Fiscal Year 2013

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Pakistan: Don’t Resume Executions

Pakistan’s government should revoke its decision to resume executions and renew its moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said in a joint letter to the Pakistani government.