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  In Fight to Improve Lives of the World’s Poor, World Bank Group Delivers Nearly $53 Billion in Support to Developing Countries in FY13 The World Bank Group committed $52.6 billion in loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees to help promote economic growth, increase shared prosperity, and fight extreme poverty in developing countries during fiscal year 2013, which ended on June 30. Despite a difficult global economic environment, the commitments for IDA – the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries – were at an all-time high, and the Bank Group’s investments in private sector financing and political insurance guarantees also were at record highs. Read more...
  
  

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  Multilateral Development Institutions Support a Robust Vision for Sustainable Development in Post-2015. The leaders of seven multilateral organizations have issued a joint appeal for global support of a report issued by a high-level UN panel that calls for ending extreme poverty and promoting sustainable development. In a joint letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on July 9, the seven leaders – who lead the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group – offered their support for the panel’s findings. Read more...
  
  

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  The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Monthly Operational Summaries as well as the African Development Bank Group Quarterly Operational Summary are now available to our subscribers.
  
  
  

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  The Organization of American States has officially joined Development Business's network of content providers. As Latin America's premier advocacy platform for democracy, human rights, security and development, this partnership allows Development Business to increase its outreach effectiveness and offer new networking opportunities to its subscribers.
  
  

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  The 3rd Latam Power Hydro & Renewables Summit will take place 7-8 August in Santiago Chile. This event will provide a framework where decision-makers and key players engaged in the business of investing, developing and operating in power can meet, network and share information as well as ideas. Subscribers to Development Business are being offered a 15% discount off the registration price.
  
  

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  Making It: Industry for Development is a quarterly magazine aiming to stimulate debate about global industrial development issues. It is published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).  The current issue looks at innovation, and includes articles by the CEO of Novozymes, one of the world’s leading industrial biotechnology companies, and Francis Gurry, WIPO’s Director General. There is also an article by Arnold Schwarzenegger and an interview with the CEO of Ethiopia’s successful footwear company, soleRebels.
  
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