World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021

David Malpass, President of the World Bank, discussed vaccines, climate, and debt. The World Bank commitments grew a record amount both in percent terms and dollar terms in 2020. The Bank is providing financing for several of the countries and they can be large-scale programs, but the countries are...

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Main Author: Malpass, David
Format: Speech
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-354152021-06-14T09:53:32Z World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021 Malpass, David CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 VACCINATION CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS DEBT SUSTAINABILITY DEBT SERVICE DEBT RELIEF ECONOMIC RECOVERY GLOBAL POVERTY CARBON PRICING HEALTH CRISIS David Malpass, President of the World Bank, discussed vaccines, climate, and debt. The World Bank commitments grew a record amount both in percent terms and dollar terms in 2020. The Bank is providing financing for several of the countries and they can be large-scale programs, but the countries are working to arrange delivery schedules from the various vaccine providers. That will be an important part of the recovery. The Bank completed a big vaccination operation through Board, which makes financing available to Bangladesh and also technical assistance from the World Bank, which is very helpful to the countries as they try to enter contract discussions, and also as they work within their health systems in order to vaccinate people. The Bank is working actively on biodiversity and agricultural challenges facing Brazil. 2021-04-09T15:23:17Z 2021-04-09T15:23:17Z 2021-04-07 Speech http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/724981617951031974/Transcript-World-Bank-Group-Press-Conference-by-President-David-Malpass-at-the-2021-Spring-Meetings http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35415 English 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 CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19 VACCINATION
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
DEBT SUSTAINABILITY
DEBT SERVICE
DEBT RELIEF
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
GLOBAL POVERTY
CARBON PRICING
HEALTH CRISIS
spellingShingle CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19 VACCINATION
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
DEBT SUSTAINABILITY
DEBT SERVICE
DEBT RELIEF
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
GLOBAL POVERTY
CARBON PRICING
HEALTH CRISIS
Malpass, David
World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021
description David Malpass, President of the World Bank, discussed vaccines, climate, and debt. The World Bank commitments grew a record amount both in percent terms and dollar terms in 2020. The Bank is providing financing for several of the countries and they can be large-scale programs, but the countries are working to arrange delivery schedules from the various vaccine providers. That will be an important part of the recovery. The Bank completed a big vaccination operation through Board, which makes financing available to Bangladesh and also technical assistance from the World Bank, which is very helpful to the countries as they try to enter contract discussions, and also as they work within their health systems in order to vaccinate people. The Bank is working actively on biodiversity and agricultural challenges facing Brazil.
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title World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021
title_short World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021
title_full World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021
title_fullStr World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021
title_full_unstemmed World Bank Group Press Conference at the 2021 Spring Meetings, April 7, 2021
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publishDate 2021
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