World Bank [to 17 October 2015]
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[We generally limit coverage to regional and global level initiatives, recognizing that a number of country-level announcements are added each week]

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Africa Gains in Health, Education, but Numbers of Poor Grow
Ahead of End Poverty Day, new World Bank Group report highlights progress and challenges, calls for ambitious efforts to collect data ACCRA, Ghana, October 16, 2015 – Africa’s strong economic…
Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Press Release

Speech by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the Global Launch of “Poverty In A Rising Africa” Report
President Mahama, Prime Minister Matata, President Adesina, dignitaries, Your Majesty Paramount Chief of Jamestown, good people of Jamestown and Accra, and all of Ghana! I greet you all. I’m so happy to…
Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Speeches and Transcripts

South Asia Extreme Poverty Falls, but Challenges Remain
WASHINGTON, October 15, 2015 – The number of people living in extreme poverty in the South Asia Region is likely to have fallen to 13.5 percent of the region’s population in 2015, according to new World…
Date: October 15, 2015 Type: Press Release

World Bank’s New End-Poverty Tool: Surveys in Poorest Countries
Working with countries and partners, plan will ensure household surveys every three years in 78 countries
Date: October 15, 2015 Type: Press Release

Addressing the Youth Employment Crisis Needs Urgent Global Action
In the coming decades, global growth will depend on today’s young people. Combatting the persistent youth employment crisis requires a global effort and proactive action: report
Date: October 13, 2015 Type: Press Release

World Bank Group, SVRI to Fund Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
WASHINGTON, October 13, 2015—The World Bank Group and nonprofit Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) today announced an open call for funding proposals for work aimed at preventing gender-based violence in low- and middle-income countries.
SVRI and the World Bank Group will provide grants of up to US$150,000 for innovations to prevent gender-based violence (GBV)—a severe and neglected problem affecting more than one in three women worldwide and a major challenge for global development.
Applications must be submitted online here by December 9, 2015.
Date: October 13, 2015 Type: Press Release