Even though globally social safety nets are at the scale to cover most among 1.2 billion extreme poor, only 345 million extremely poor people are in fact covered by them.
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Trade misinvoicing causes big financial hurt across Africa
Over the past 10 years more than $60 billon has been illegally moved into or out of Uganda, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania, according to a study.
Mexico wants to focus on tourism
The tourism industry is the latest one to take the spotlight as President Enrique Peña Nieto seeks to divert some of the frustration and opposition on his structural reform agenda.
Big questions remain around planned Asia infrastructure bank
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will act as a regional infrastructure finance lender yet there is a lot at stake for China and the region.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s renewable energy dilemma
Renewables are the way forward for the region and have the potential to power the whole of the continent.
Europe looks to be upbeat
As growth is still set to remain moderate in the coming months this reality — and the two-speed recovery — will become ever-clearer.
A global picture of the downfall of the plastic bag
Worldwide, a trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, nearly 2 million each minute.
The world’s economies in one chart
The state of the world’s economies according to the International Comparison Program (ICP), coordinated by the World Bank, offer numerous other insights into the global economic situation.
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