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Online: Wednesday Highlighted! Spring Meeting Events.

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Jumpstarting the Next Revolution in Food and Agriculture

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Date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm ET/ 15:00 – 16:30 GMT
Location: Preston Auditorium, World Bank

Chief Economists Roundtable: The Road to 2030 – New Challenges, New Solutions

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Date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET/ 17:00 – 18:00 GMT ET
Location: MC13-121, World Bank

eC2:Consultant Services for the Development of Regional Infrastructure Development Fund Project Development Facility (RIDF-PDF)

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Deadline: 01-May-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Infrastructure_Financing_PPPs_MENA

The objective of this consultancy assignment is to support the structuring and operationalization of a PDF linked to RIDF. The PDF will support SNGs in project identification, planning and preparation, thereby building a strong pipeline for RIDF

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WBG/IMF APP

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The Spring Meetings AMWeb App is your single source of information while you’re in D.C.

– View the latest schedule and speaker details
– Create a personal agenda
– Provide feedback on events
– Use interactive maps

Each Spring, the joint World Bank Group-IMF Development Committee and the IMF’s International Monetary and Financial Committee and hold meetings to discuss the work of the institutions.

The Meetings are attended by approximately 2,800 delegates from our member countries, 350 observer organization representatives and 800 members of the press. Approximately 550 accredited civil society members also participate in the Meetings.

Plenary sessions of the World Bank Group/IMF Boards of Governors are only scheduled during the Annual Meetings in the autumn.

 

Solid Waste Management

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Around the world, waste generation rates are rising.

In 2012, the worlds’ cities Bangladesh-Dominic-Chavez-WB-780x439generated  1.3 billion tonnes of solid waste per year, amounting to a footprint of 1.2 kilograms per person per day. With rapid population growth and urbanization, municipal waste generation is expected to rise to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025.

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eC2: Digital Transformation Strategic Client Workshops

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Deadline: 26-Apr-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Financial Education

A wave of innovation is sweeping financial services, transforming channels products and processes and enabling broader outreach. This has resulted in improved product fit for underserved segments, and more efficient service delivery. Together these improvements can enable a more sustainable provision of high volume low value services to previously underbanked segments, as well as improved delivery across all segments. Some of this innovation is coming from new regulated and unregulated stand-alone financial services providers. The full potential for financial inclusion, however, will be more quickly attained by fostering innovation in the incumbent banks and financial service providers alongside fostering innovative entrants. IFCs goals of financial inclusion and servicing the real economy are therefore served by both investing in FinTech innovators and by helping incumbents build their capacity to innovate internally and adopt external innovations.

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Spring Meetings: Live ONLINE Calendar

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Cant attend the Spring Meetings in person ? ……… Welcome to the Spring Meetings LIVE Online! We will be streaming 25 events in multiple languages, including French, Spanish and Arabic. Engage live, join the conversation, and pose your questions to experts. Please come join us for the week of April 18 – April 22 and don’t forget to add our events to your calendar!

Click here to pick and choose the event you will be following live online next week! 

Wanted: Entrepreneurs to help end poverty

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In many developing countries, governments struggle to reach people living in extreme poverty and bring them into the formal economy. But even in the toughest places, a special kind of entrepreneur is doing what governments often can’t.

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