A look at the state of these countries from the World Bank’s recently published Global Economic Prospects report.
Developing countries get their biannual checkup
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A global view on social safety nets
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.
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.
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.
Global fish trade breaks records
Even though small-scale fishers and fish farmers constitute about 90% of the sector’s global workforce, small-scale fishing communities don’t receive all that they should in correlation.
Capital flows to emerging economies in one chart
Emerging economies wonder what’s next for them as advanced ones celebrate what they see as an economic recovery.
RED ZONE: Income inequality
The gap between the rich and the poor is likely to take a bigger space on the political stage in 2014.
Israel, Jordan, and Palestinian Authority sign regional water deal
A trilateral agreement, which includes the construction of a desalination plan and a pipeline that will take water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, is based off a water exchange program.
Kirchner’s ‘children’ play with Argentina’s economic future
South America’s number two economy will deepen its state interventionism model under newly appointed economy minister Axel Kicillof.
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