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Boosting Health and Education Spending is Key to Resilient Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery in Emerging Europe and Central Asia

Emerging and developing economies in the Europe and Central Asia region are on course to contract by 4.4 percent this year, the worst recession since the global financial crisis of 2008, says the latest edition of the World Bank’s Economic Update for...

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Investing in People is Crucial to Economic Recovery in Central Asia

Central Asian economies are on course to contract by 1.7 percent this year, a sharp reversal from the 4.9 percent growth in 2019, says the latest edition of the World Bank Economic Update for the Europe and Central Asia region released on October 07...

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Unrelenting violence continues to impact children in Ituri, eastern DRC

Thousands of internally displaced people live around the church in Drodro, Ituri, DRC, using it...

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Japan supports WFP in addressing impact of locust outbreak in eastern Sudan

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Sudan has welcomed a contribution of US$1.7 million from the Government of Japan to support vulnerable people whose livelihoods and food security are most at risk because of desert locust swarms that...

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