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Annual Meetings: World Bank Events
The World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings are back this year from 
October 9-15, and we hope you’ll join us!
Live from Marrakech, Morocco, the 2023 Meetings focus on what it will take to end poverty on a livable planet. Events will explore the new playbook we need to respond to intertwined global challenges. What solutions have worked on the ground in developing countries? How do we boost jobs, digital infrastructure, and climate action?
Mark your calendar and sign up for email reminders to join our public events online. This is your opportunity to interact with central bankers, ministers, private sector executives, civil society representatives, youth leaders, academics, and others on issues facing our world today. Ask questions to our experts and join the conversation with the hashtag #WBmeetings, as we bring you our events in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
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World Bank Group Announces Comprehensive Toolkit to Support Countries After Natural Disasters
June 22, 2023—The World Bank Group today announced a suite of new and expanded actions to help countries respond quickly and effectively to an ever-growing onslaught of crises.
At the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, Ajay Banga announced an expanded toolkit for crisis preparedness, response, and recovery that includes: (1) pausing debt repayments; (2) redirecting financing; (3) linking crisis preparedness and financing; (4); backstopping development projects with private sector support, and (5) building enhanced catastrophe insurance without debt.
India incorporates green bonds into its climate finance strategy
In 2023, India experienced the hottest February since 1901, the first year the country’s
Meteorological Department started its weather records. Extreme weather events like this are becoming frequent and are expected to get worse due to climate change. India is among the countries most affected by the impacts of extreme weather events.
World Bank Group Intensifies Focus on Private Sector, Launches Effort to Scale Investment in Emerging Markets
PARIS, June 22, 2023—The World Bank Group today launched the Private Sector Investment Lab, a concrete step in a broader effort to develop, and rapidly scale, solutions that address the barriers preventing private sector investment in emerging markets.
We can’t have a world without poverty in a world with plastic pollution
When future generations share the story of plastic pollution, it will include graphic images of 
turtles choking on plastic debris, zooming out to show beaches and communities laden with trash, and panning to medical reports showing microplastic in the average person’s bloodstream. This is a story that started as an environmental crisis, and quickly became an economic and health crisis. And it’s a story that intersects with the triple planetary crises we are grappling with today: biodiversity, climate, and pollution. We are on the brink of writing the next important chapter in this story.
eC2: China Agricultural Weather Index-based Insurance (WII) Project-WII Product Design and
Deadline: 28-May-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The project team is seeking the services of a vendor/consultant with proven track records in designing successful agricultural Weather Index Insurance products in the China market, and having strong expertise in weather/loss data collection, processing, analysis, WII product modeling, pricing and conducting related research etc.
Scaling up the COVID-19 crisis response now will avoid higher costs later
Much more is still needed to help developing economies in the wake of the COVID-19 
crisis. If we don’t scale up our efforts now, the damage will require a much larger response later.
Poorest, most vulnerable countries likely to be hit hardest from coronavirus
World Bank Group teams around the world remain focused on country-level and regional solutions to address the ongoing crisis. In this piece, President David Malpass highlights the progress the Bank Group has made in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Related: The World Bank’s Managing Director for Development Policy and Partnerships, Mari Pangestu, shares her thoughts on how the world’s poorest will face the pandemic. The fight against COVID-19 requires concerted international effort, she wrote. “Going it alone will hurt the poorest and most vulnerable countries.”
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