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World Bank Group President Ajay Banga met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. During his visit to India, Mr Banga will go to Uttar Pradesh tomorrow and participate in a series of meetings and events.
Banga told reporters that if the U.S. were to not follow through on the $4 billion International Development Association pledge from former president Joe Biden's administration last year, and some ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Wednesday he has had constructive talks with the Trump administration about the development lender but he did not know how much the U ...
World Bank President Ajay S. Banga said global development initiatives must prioritize job creation at a Harvard Institute of Politics Forum on Monday.
Banga said Trump knows there are very few other institutions that can take $1 of government money and multiply it four or 10 times for development lending that can help develop new markets for U.S ...
Finally, Banga’s own contribution has thus far been minimal—a decision, backed by a G20 committee report, to lower the Bank’s equity-to loan ratio from 20 to 19 per cent, which is expected ...
It’s not easy to find a leader with the skill and drive to take on the monumental task of transforming an essential institution, but since becoming World Bank president last June, Ajay Banga has ...
Narrating his ordeal, Prof. Banga said: “I was suffering from a disease that was classified as an incurable disease after sevetreatment of treatment. One day I met a gentleman from Burkina Faso who ...
Nevertheless, much is expected from the new face of the World Bank in terms of his commitment to the most vulnerable of the world’s people. As the first head of a Bretton Woods institution to come ...
Ajay Banga controls some of those levers. In June, after decades as a corporate executive, he became the first person born in the Global South to lead the World Bank Group, a powerful set of ...
Ajay Banga, who began his five-year term as World Bank Group president in June, is ushering in a new mission for the institution: eradicating poverty while fighting climate change. “If you can ...