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Women Face Widespread Job Restrictions In India: World Bank

Women in India are not allowed to work in mining or in jobs that require lifting weights above a certain threshold or working with glass, according to a latest World Bank r...

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Hollywood

FIFA Brings Top Players Together To Fight Ebola

Top international football players are joining forces with world football’s governing body FIFA, the Confederation of African Football and health experts to raise glo...

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Sustainable Development

New financing facility to help poor countries reach 2015 development goal

Additional funds will speed up progress on women and child health in developing countries To give developing countries an extra push in achieving their health-related Mille...

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Sustainable Development

World Bank Pledges $15-18 b to Support India over 3 Years

The World Bank said it is ready to commit $15-18 billion to support India over the next three years, even as its president endorsed the business model of Gujarat, the state...

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Health

A Renewed Call for Child and Maternal Health

At the Saving Every Woman, Every Child summit held in Toronto, Canada last month, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group asserted, “We stand today on a c...

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Environment

Big dams stage a comeback as concerns over climate change grow

Fund flow for hydropower projects increases in the name of combating climate change but what about social and environmental safeguards? Climate change and growing concerns ...

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Environment

Big dams stage a comeback as concerns over climate change grow

Fund flow for hydropower projects increases in the name of combating climate change but what about social and environmental safeguards? Climate change and growing concerns ...

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Sustainable Development

The Year the World Bank Fused Sustainable Development with Its Goals for the Future

The World Bank Group set two ambitious goals in 2013, and in the process made clear that one concept will underlie its actions toward both: sustainability.
“Endi...

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Sustainable Development

The Year the World Bank Fused Sustainable Development with Its Goals for the Future

The World Bank Group set two ambitious goals in 2013, and i...

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Health

Strengthening African health systems

A group of current and former African finance ministers discussed ways to improve the management of public health systems at an early October roundtable convened by Harvard...

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