THE World Bank Group announced today an additional $100 million funding in its Ebola crisis response to speed up deployment of foreign health workers to the three worst-affected countries in West Africa.
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Ebola Crisis: World Bank President To Visit Ghana
WORLD Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will arrive in Ghana on Thursday, October 30, 2014, for meetings with Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur and other country officials. Dr. Kim will also meet with officials of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to discuss the Ebola epidemic and its debilitating impact on the three […]
‘Boosting Shared Prosperity is Key to Tackling Inequality’
WORLD Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today called for economic growth that creates more just societies, and he defined the institutions goal of boosting shared prosperity as the World Bank Groups way of tackling the global challenge of inequality.
Ebola Could Be Catastrophic To Guinea, Others-World Bank
WORLD Bank Group analysis of the Ebola epidemic released today finds that if the virus continues to surge in the three worst-affected countries Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone its economic impact could grow eight-fold, dealing a potentially catastrophic blow to the already fragile states.