Remarks at the SDG Summit

David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, addressed the challenges to reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. He mentioned Brexit, negative interest rates, trade frictions, global economic slowdown, sluggish investment, debt burdens, and lack of access to clean water, education, ele...

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Main Author: Malpass, David
Format: Speech
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/756201581416276630/Remarks-by-World-Bank-Group-President-David-Malpass-at-the-SDG-Summit
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spelling okr-10986-333482021-05-25T09:32:47Z Remarks at the SDG Summit Malpass, David GLOBAL GROWTH INTEREST RATES PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INCLUSION OF WOMEN BASIC HEALTH CARE POVERTY ALLEVIATION DEBT BURDEN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT INFRASTRUCTURE TRADE POLICY David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, addressed the challenges to reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. He mentioned Brexit, negative interest rates, trade frictions, global economic slowdown, sluggish investment, debt burdens, and lack of access to clean water, education, electricity, roads, and basic health care. The World Bank focuses on helping developing countries implement good policies. Many need a bolder agenda for boosting private sector growth. He noted that the problem of global poverty is urgent, so we need to act quickly, and work continually with everyone on these challenges. 2020-02-19T18:10:22Z 2020-02-19T18:10:22Z 2019-09-24 Speech http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/756201581416276630/Remarks-by-World-Bank-Group-President-David-Malpass-at-the-SDG-Summit http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33348 English Delivered in New York, September 24, 2019; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: President's Speech
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topic GLOBAL GROWTH
INTEREST RATES
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
INCLUSION OF WOMEN
BASIC HEALTH CARE
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
DEBT BURDEN
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
TRADE POLICY
spellingShingle GLOBAL GROWTH
INTEREST RATES
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
INCLUSION OF WOMEN
BASIC HEALTH CARE
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
DEBT BURDEN
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
TRADE POLICY
Malpass, David
Remarks at the SDG Summit
relation Delivered in New York, September 24, 2019;
description David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, addressed the challenges to reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. He mentioned Brexit, negative interest rates, trade frictions, global economic slowdown, sluggish investment, debt burdens, and lack of access to clean water, education, electricity, roads, and basic health care. The World Bank focuses on helping developing countries implement good policies. Many need a bolder agenda for boosting private sector growth. He noted that the problem of global poverty is urgent, so we need to act quickly, and work continually with everyone on these challenges.
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