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Access to financial services is defined as the share of the adult population (population ages 15+) with an account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider. The data for the ranking taken from the Global Financial Inclusion Database, which was compiled by the World Bank. Available indicators are reported for ...
Nestlé Purina PetCare continued integrating the two companies through 2002. [10] It cut back dry dog food manufacturing at facilities inherited from Friskies PetCare Company in Jefferson, Wisconsin, St. Joseph, Missouri and Arden Hills, Minnesota, then moved those operations to manufacturing facilities acquired from Ralston.
In an effort to improve upon water and sanitation technology for impoverished nations, the World Bank and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) founded the program in 1978. [ 19 ] The program and its forebearer UNDP invested most of its efforts to testing cost-effective technologies such as hand pumps and latrines for future ...
The World Bank Institute is the capacity development branch of the World Bank, providing learning and other capacity-building programs to member countries. The IBRD has 189 member governments, and the other institutions have between 153 and 184. [2] The institutions of the World Bank Group are all run by a board of governors meeting once a year ...
World Bank. World Bank eLibrary is a subscription-based online web portal of all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. It covers more than 20 disciplines related to poverty, development, and social science including economic and human development, agriculture, infrastructure ...
Ethiopian authorities diverted millions of dollars from a World Bank-supported project to fund a violent campaign of mass evictions, according to former officials who carried out the forced resettlement program. From 2009 to 2013, World Bank Group lenders pumped $50 billion into projects graded the highest risk for “irreversible or ...
A Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) is a development bank, created by a group of countries, that provides financing, technical assistance and professional advice to enhance development. An MDB has many members, including developed donor countries and developing borrower countries.
Morocco's involvement with the World Bank primarily focuses on infrastructure, such as road, transport and water sanitation. In addition the bank supports projects across the health sector, youth development, renewable energy, governance and the support of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). 27 projects are ongoing, including three projects initiated in 2017. [1]