David Reavill·Jun 28World Bank To USA: Ramp-Up Your Production!This week’s Face the Nation on CBS had one principal guest: David Malpass, President of the World Bank. I’ve linked the interview below. You can find it on the Face the Nation YouTube channel. For anyone who has followed economics in this country, you’re no doubt familiar with the name…World Bank5 min read
Oxfam International·Jun 17Explaining Oxfam’s Projections for Extreme Poverty in 2022by Max Lawson This blog responds to Noah Smiths’ Substack criticism of Oxfam’s extreme poverty numbers Dear Noah, First of all, I would like to thank you for the scrutiny of our numbers, which I really believe increases accountability. As we did a couple of years ago, I would have…World Bank9 min read
gnomes4truth·Jun 15French Imperialism vs. Crypto Colonialism: The Central African Republic ExperimentSebs Solomon — June 10, 2022 — This post can also be found on siliconicarus.org — thank you Raul Diego for publishing it. The Central African Republic (CAR) recently added Bitcoin as a legal currency, tokenized natural resources, and even created a “cryptocurrency economic zone” called Sango — following in the footsteps of El Salvador. The CAR…World Bank18 min read
Kiara parmar·Jun 8World Bank warns of recession as Ukraine war hits already rocked economiesCountries around the world are facing recession as the Ukraine war hits economies already rocked by the Covid pandemic, the World Bank has warned, BBC reported. Less developed countries in Europe and east Asia face a “major recession”, it said. The risk of high inflation and low growth — so — called “stagflation” — is also higher, World Bank President David Malpass said. Energy and food bills have been rising around the world.World Bank1 min read
Willian Rafael Carvalho·Jun 1Consuming data from an API with Power B.I.Today I decided to share a resolution of a challenge that was proposed to me. Consume a public API from World Bank with Power B.I (http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country?format=json). This API is paginated so we need to get access to all the pages in order to get all data from this endpoint. That…World Bank3 min read
Nemeyimana Vicent·May 29I attended World Bank Group Youth Summit 2022, and here is what I Learnt and Taught!Few days ago while patrolling the internet for entrepreneurship opportunities for my Miklah Entrepreneurs Group and Miklah Funding program, I landed on an opportunity to apply for World Bank Group Youth Summit 2022. Besides sharing the opportunity with my fellow youth through the WhatsApp group and blog post, I too…World Bank9 min read
Aspen Digital·May 27World Bank Shows Worry Over Central African Republic’s Sango Crypto Hub — Aspen Market DailyDaily Market Wrap Crypto market cap: 1.20 trillion, down 5.49% BTC price stands at USD 28,934, down 3.01% ETH price stands at USD 1,739, down 10.48% Top gainer:TrueUSD (TUSD), up 00.00% Top loser: TerraClassicUSD (UST), down 45.53% News of the DayWorld Bank3 min read
TORU TANICAWA·May 23David McKenzie://IndicatorsHome David McKenzie Development Research Group, World Bank David McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the Development Research…sites.google.comWorld Bank3 min read
David gomadza·May 9Culling: The Sad Reality of The IMF and World Bank Loans As Triggers of Wars.Finding Solutions To The Russian-Ukraine War. Culling in its harshest form; soldiers, firefighters, civil servants, pensioners, women, and children. All this as a way of making sure that borrowing countries will be able to pay back the loan. We are Tomorrow’s World Order; established in 2018 but officially launched in…World Bank64 min read
Tamy·May 2Using World Bank Data on Pandas for BeginnersA.k.a. the things I searched to do this small Seaborn practice. — I decided to practice Pandas and Seaborn using the World Bank data. They have all sort of datasets. You can search things like “Indonesia” “GDP” or any other indicators which are separated into different major topics like Climate Change, Economy & Growth, Education, Gender, Health, Poverty, etc. You can search…World Bank4 min read
