Sentences with phrase «event of world bank»

Adeosun stated this while delivering her address at Washington DC for the opening event of World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.

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A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

Although Australia avoided the recession that engulfed many developed countries at the start of this decade, it was not totally unaffected by world events, and the Bank found it necessary in 2001 to cut the cash rate to 4.25 per cent in a series of steps.

Danielle DiMartino Booth: I hate to inflammatory words like abolishing, but you could certainly see a sequence of events whereby if the Bitcoin bubble ends up bleeding into other overvalued asset classes that then bleed into an economic contraction leading to recession, and then causing the central banks of the world, starting with the Fed, to go back to the zero - bounded interest rates.

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

Organized by the Governments of the Netherlands, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Norway as well as FAO and the World Bank the event is significant given the forthcoming annual decision - making meeting (CoP16) of the UN for Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico in December.

Also on Tuesday, at the «Appetite for Action» event, Wiebe Draijer — as head of Rabobank, the world's leading food and agriculture bank — announced Kickstart Waste, a 3 - year program to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 on food loss and waste.

The climax of the event was the presentation of vehicles to representatives of the six states by world Bank officials.

Mr Terkper gave the assurance at an event hosted by the World Bank Group for the First Lady of the United States, Mrs Michelle Obama, last Wednesday as part of the ongoing World Bank / IMF Spring meetings in Washington, DC, USA.

The Banker Awards is an annual event of the Banker Magazine, a publication of the Financial Times of London and world's leading monthly journal of records for the global banking industry, with expertise in publishing developments in the African banking industry and beyond for more than 90 years.

Another event announced today is NYC Parks» «World's Fair Anniversary Festival,» a day of great food, great rides, live entertainment, exhibits of World's Fair memorabilia and more that will be sponsored in part by the Queens Borough President's Office and New York Community Bank and held in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Sunday, May 18.

This special event is shared between Phacilitate Cell & Gene Therapy World and World Stem Cell Summit agendas, ensuring a unique audience made up of both industry and academic stakeholders as well as investors, big pharma, regulators and, of course, the world's leading cell and tissue bWorld and World Stem Cell Summit agendas, ensuring a unique audience made up of both industry and academic stakeholders as well as investors, big pharma, regulators and, of course, the world's leading cell and tissue bWorld Stem Cell Summit agendas, ensuring a unique audience made up of both industry and academic stakeholders as well as investors, big pharma, regulators and, of course, the world's leading cell and tissue bworld's leading cell and tissue banks.

Along UNESCO, the Government of Korea, UNICEF, the World Bank, UNFPA, UNDP, UN Women, and UNHCR, made contributions to lead this milestone event for Education 2030.

Charles is a highly sought - after keynoter / presenter at private, national and international events for organizations as varied as the World Economic Forum, UNESCO, World Bank, OECD, Google TechTalk, Gates Foundation, National Science Foundation, World Future Society, NY Times Schools of Tomorrow, International Baccalaureate, ERB, SSATB, ACT, Learning & the Brain, British Council, CEA - ACE, etc..

Education day, which is co-hosted and sponsored by PNC Bank, in conjunction with the show, includes an hour long «A World of Opportunities» event in which some 225 Detroit Public School pre-K students are provided with PNC «Grow Up Great» educational materials.

In a one - off GT only event, the SPEED World Challenge Series took on the high banks of Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte... under the lights!

Two of the three historical exceptions were unique events: Among the causes in 1931 were the collapse of Austrian bank Credit - Anstalt and the currency crisis that forced Britain to abandon the gold standard; in 1941 it was the U.S. entry into World War II.

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Temenos Community Forum held in Barcelona on the 18th & 19th of May, was an event where the Banking, Finance and Fintech worlds collided.

The topic of funder accountability received glaring attention in Cancún at a side event organized by Avoided Deforestation Partners, where Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo railed Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the World Bank for hindering delivery of the first installment of $ 250 million in climate funding which Guyana had fulfilled the requirements for 11 months ago.

First, the government decided to write a draft strategy before requesting support from the World Bank - managed REDD + fund: the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), thus reversing the normal sequence of events.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report world, the World Bank report World Bank report said.

The event will see all 15 teams given the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of high - profile names from the legal profession, including World Bank general counsel Sandie Okoro (pictured above), KPMG UK GC Jeremy Barton and former Anheuser - Busch InBev chief legal officer Sabine Chalmers (pictured right).

Panellists at the event including the former Governor of the Bank of England Lord Mervyn King, addressed the topic of how asset managers and investors are «navigating a low return world».

Recent developments such as the discussion at the colloquium and at some of the other events mentioned in the report, such as a conference sponsored by the World Bank and the American Bar Association in the US in January, may justify more optimism about an UNCITRAL project.

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Lunch time on October 5th, 2016, I sat at my computer in Colorado gobbling up a sumptuous and historic sight: on one event stage, the leaders of The World Bank, The World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund stood alongside catalysts from academia and declared their growing financial and institutional dedication to placing early childhood development policy and programs at the heart of their strategies.

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