World Bank [to 15 March 2014]
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World Bank Presents Views on Post-2015 Framework for MDGs
March 13, 2014 – As the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) gets closer, the World Bank Group (WBG) is setting ambitious targets and reforming the way it does business to support a sustainable post-2015 development framework. The WBG is working with the United Nations (UN) and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) to make MDGs meet their objectives. While member states are the ones driving the Post-2015 agenda, the World Bank’s contribution from its ability to push the “data revolution,” or to help build a consensus on a new financing framework is being recognized by the international community. The WBG  is also committed to better leverage resources and knowledge to support strong economic growth and to tackle rising income equality, gender imbalance, climate change and fragility…

South Sudan: World Bank Mobilizes US$44 Million to Provide Critical Health Services and Fight Hunger
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$44 million in additional financing to help South Sudan boost health services, fight hunger and assist people displaced by conflict in Jonglei, Upper Nile and other areas of the conflict affected country.“ South Sudan is facing a difficult time in its short history with conflict affecting six of ten states in the country,” said Bella Bird, World Bank Country Director for South Sudan. “The World Bank Group is mobilizing efforts in two very important life-saving ways, by expanding access to much-needed basic health services and helping to meet basic food needs of poor and vulnerable populations. “The first of the two projects approved by the Bank consists of a $25 million grant and a $10 million International Development Association (IDA*) credit and will support the Health Rapid Results project in Jonglei and Upper Nile states which are most affected by conflict…

Latin America: Increase in Number of Retirees with the Right to a Pension
   Beyond Contributory Pensions:  Fourteen Experiences in Latin America (Más allá de las Pensiones Contributivas: Catorce experiencias en América Latina) — notes that recent reforms of pension systems adopted in 14 Latin American countries in the last decade have helped reduce the proportion of the population over 65 with no access to benefits by almost 33%, a change that represent the most dramatic coverage improvement in decades.
The report also focuses on how LAC countries are addressing the urgent need to prevent its rapidly ageing population from falling into poverty. In 1950, life expectancy in the region was 52 years; it reached 74 in 2010 and is expected to exceed 85 by 2100.
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Speeches & Transcripts
Speech by Makhtar Diop at the High-level Forum on Higher Education, Science and Technology in Africa
Makhtar Diop, World Bank’s Vice President for the Africa Region
High-level Forum on Higher Education, Science and Technology in Africa
Kigali, Rwanda
March 13, 2014
Full text – As Prepared for Delivery: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2014/03/13/speech-by-makhtar-diop-at-the-high-level-forum-on-higher-education-science-and-technology-in-africa