The purpose of this work is to help them fight against poverty and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030). The World Bank's debt relief work is divided into two ...

World Bank - BBC News Coronavirus- Millions will ... During the coronavirus pandemic, campaigners want debt relief to be applied for all countries in need, and most urgently for the poorest ...

In 1996, a new debt relief initiative for the heavily-indebted poor countries—the HIPC Initiative—was launched by the IMF and the World Bank. 1 The HIPC Initiative was intended to resolve the debt ...

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, ...

The main contribution of the World Bank to financing for the G20 framework countries is through net transfers, including $50 billion in front-loaded IDA support to be disbursed over 15 months. The IMF ...

Yet the architect of many of the reforms which attracted those institutions is concerned about the headwinds faced by African ...

China is right to say that the World Bank and IMF need to engage in debt relief. Many African debtor countries think the same thing. Uzbekistan has made impressive development gains over the past ...

It is the World Bank’s job to lend to all 78 of the world’s poorest countries—defined both by their income per person and the sustainability of their debt burden—through a single fund ...

The World Bank’s guarantee on the loan to Ivory Coast will help it save €60mn in debt service costs that can be spent on education. Ivory Coast was the first sub-Saharan African state to sell ...

The HIPC initiative is a joint effort by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to provide debt relief to ...