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World Bank Continues to Support Upgrading Georgia’s Major Transport Route

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$75.0 million equivalent financing for the Fourth East-West Highway Improvement Project (EWHIP4) for Georgia. This is the latest in a series of investments aimed at...

IMF Sees Positive Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa

The near-term outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains broadly positive, with growth projected to accelerate modestly to around 5½ percent in 2013–14, following a year of strong growth in 2012, the International Moneta...

Despite Wealth of Resources, Africa Lags Economically

“Delivering on Africa’s Promise” is this theme of this year’s World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, where some 1,000 delegates from business, government and non-government organizations gathered to discuss how to im...

Education For All: teachers’ assessment of 25 years of promises

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