As Share of GDP, Global Aid to 26 Low-Income Economies Falls to 21-Year Low
WASHINGTON, October 13, 2024—The world’s 26 poorest economies—home to about 40 percent of all people who live on less than $2.15 a day—are deeper in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and other shocks, new analysis from the World Bank shows. Yet international aid as a share of their GDP has dwindled to a two-decade low, forcing many to obtain financing on punishing terms.
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Business Ready (B-READY) 2024 report assesses the regulatory framework and public
services directed at firms, and the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice.
Unequal access to jobs and finance. Limited access to education and healthcare. Exclusion 
from decision-making. Risks of gender-based violence.
Women all over the world face these challenges, but even more so in countries facing fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) where restrictive gender norms are often amplified and entrenched.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2024 — The Heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed on broad principles for cooperation on pandemic preparedness. This cooperation will allow a scaling up of support to countries to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats through the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), the WBG’s financial and technical support, and WHO’s technical expertise and in-country capabilities. The RST allows eligible member countries to access long-term financing at low interest rates to help implement reforms that address structural challenges to the stability of the economy, such as those posed by pandemics, and to enhance countries’ health systems resilience.
Washington DC, October 7th, 2024 – Developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) is continuing to grow faster than the rest of the world in 2024, but slower than before the pandemic, the World Bank said in its semi-annual economic outlook for the region – the East Asia and Pacific Economic Update.
In spite of a commendable decline in stunting rates over the past 30 years, 148 million children 
worldwide remain stunted. The condition impairs their growth, health, development, and education and has long-term consequences for their future wellbeing.
As the digital revolution sweeps across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Digital Public 
Infrastructure (DPI) is at the heart of this shift. DPI refers to the essential systems that make digital services accessible to everyone. It’s the common digital plumbing that supports digital identities, payment systems, and data-sharing networks. But how is the LAC region progressing in building these critical digital services?
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