Report: Women, Business and the Law 2019- A Decade of Reform

Posted on May 31, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

Women, Business and the Law measures global progress toward gender equality in the Women, Business and the Law 2019 law. Topic notes and related research provide further analysis of the data. To gain new insight into how women’s employment and entrepreneurship choices are affected by legal gender discrimination, this study examines ten years of Women, Business and the Law data through an index structured around economic decisions women make as they go through different stages of their working lives.

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Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2019 Multilateralism: Past, Present, and Future

Posted on May 2, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

Registration is now open until Monday June 3, 2019 at 11:59PM (EST).

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), organized by the World Bank’s Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, is one of the world’s best-known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on development. The conference aims to promote the exchange of cutting-edge knowledge among researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners.

The next conference will take place on June 17–18, 2019 at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The theme of the conference will be “Multilateralism: Past, Present, and Future”. The 2019 ABCDE conference will be part of a series of events scheduled to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference

Spring Meeting Speakers

Posted on April 11, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

The 2019 Spring Meetings and related events will take place in Washington, D.C. from Monday, April 8, through Sunday, April 14. Spring

Christine Lagarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva the Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank will be very active at different events as speakers but besides the high level persons you can imagine hundreds of speakers have been ask to give presentations on numerous interesting topics. Click to find out more about these speakers.

Featured Spring Meeting Events

Posted on April 10, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

These are some of our featured events you shouldn’t miss

Don’t worry if you can’t be at #WBGMeetings in person. We’ve got you covered with World Bank Live. Block out time now to watch our events live, and in case you miss it, you can still catch up with our World Bank Group activities on our Spring Meetings live blog.

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SM19 :Watch the events online

Posted on April 9, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

Watch online if you can’t be at the Meetings in person.

World Bank Live has you covered, the World Bank’s digital platform for live-streaming and engaging with global audiences. Block out time now to watch our events live, and in case you miss it, you can still catch up with your favorite events on our events recap page or watch a replay.

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Spring Meetings 2019 Program.

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3 ways to follow World Bank Group activities at the 2019 Spring Meetings

Posted on April 8, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

Our 2019 Spring Meetings is just around the corner and it’s time to get 042418-art_exhabition_preston-086_f organized. Main stage speakers include representatives from top-notch institutions and organizations such as the United Nations, National Geographic, World Trade Organization, Bloomberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.

The Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an event that brings together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic development, and aid effectiveness.

This year’s events will take place in Washington, D.C., April 8-14, 2019.

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7 reasons for land and property rights to be at the top of the global agenda

Posted on March 29, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

This week, more than 1,500 development professionals from around the world are madagascar-farhat gathering at the World Bank’s annual Land and Poverty Conference, discussing the latest research and innovations in policies and good practice on land governance.

Secure property rights and efficient land registration institutions are a cornerstone of any modern economy. They give confidence to individuals and businesses to invest in land, allow private companies to borrow – using land as a collateral – to expand job opportunities, and enable governments to collect property taxes, which are necessary to finance the provision of infrastructure and services to citizens.

Unfortunately, a mere 30% of the global population has legally registered rights to their land and homes.

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Spring Meetings 2019

Posted on March 27, 2019 by NL4WorldBank

The 2019 Spring Meetings Program of Open Events is now available on IMF Connect. These events are open to all registered participants. You can add these events to your personalized schedule by logging in to .

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