The campaign for safety in the Bangladeshi readymade garment sector has received a boost with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announcing a wide-ranging safety programme by providing $50 million ...
Tags: fshionable garment, IFC, garment
Finance minister Arun Jaitley who is on a visit to the US, has said that economic reforms in the legislative pipeline can push India's growth rate above the current range of 7 to 7.5 per cent. India's economy, Asia's third largest, is ...
Tags: Arun Jaitley, economic reforms
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, including textile and clothing firms, face several challenges—access to finance, rickety infrastructure, patchy energy supplies and security concerns, says a recent Economist ...
For the first time, India is leading the growth chart of major economies, even ahead of China, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report. In India, new reforms are improving business and ...
Tags: World Bank's Growth, Economies
Al Safi Danone Iraq will receive around $18m in investment from World Bank Group member IFC to expand its dairy operations to enhance domestic food security. This is a part of World Bank Group's strategy to encourage South-South ...
Tags: Al Safi Danone Iraq, food security
The World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Economic Report April 2015 paints a favourable picture for Vietnam. According to the report, medium term projections reflect gradual improvement in GDP growth and macroeconomic stability ...
Tags: Vietnam's Growth, GDP growth
The Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with that country to arrest falling knitwear exports. Modi’s visit to Canada begins ...
Tags: General Preferential Tariff, Tirupur Exporters'Association, Apparel
China's economy is likely to grow at a medium-to-high rate under the "new normal", Economic Daily reported Justin Yifu Lin, a member of China's 12th CPPCC as saying on Monday. Under the "new normal", China has both the conditions and the ...
Tags: medium-to-high rate, new normal
Although six years have passed since the global financial crisis broke out, many countries have not yet overcome its impact with the global economy is still facing uncertainties. And given the economic slowdown, albeit slight, in China, it ...
Due to the euro zone, Japan and some emerging economies disappointing economic prospects, offset by a drop in oil prices brought the global economy, the World Bank cut down global economic growth forecasts on January 13, 2015 and 2016. ...
Tags: Economy, Global Economy
International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a senior loan of $8.5m and mobilize a parallel senior loan of €5m from Rabobank to help Georgia’s glass bottle manufacturer Mina expand its business. The financial help from ...
Tags: Glass Container, financial help, Packaging
VF Corporation, a leading apparel supplier chain company, and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have provided loans to three Bangladeshi garment factories under a new program for funding fire and building safety improvements. Through ...
Affected by the global economic recovery of uncertainty, this year's the asean countries growth momentum is healthy but conservative.According to the latest issue of the international monetary fund annual economic outlook report this year, ...
Tags: economic recovery, Asian nations
Economic globalization refers to the economic resources which can cross national borders freely, comprehensivly and conjunctively flow and configuration in the global scope in the world economic development, making national economy ...
Tags: Global Trade, global supply chain
Ten Ivorian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have entered the ecommerce marketplace by setting up the trade portal titled “IvoryMall”, with the support of the International Trade Centre (ITC). The initiative is part ...