World Bank President Ajay Banga has pledged to further cut the Bank's timeline for loan and project approvals and continues to contemplate reforms to raise more capital and conceivably extend Bank lending into previously off-limit areas...
Adesina due to stand down in September 2025 will host a joint Africa Energy Summit later this year with his World Bank counterpart Ajay Banga...
'No amount of creative financial engineering will compensate for the fact that we just need more funding ' World Bank President Ajay Banga said at the bank's mid-term review in December...
Bank President Ajay Banga wants to expand the institution's operations especially on climate finance but there are no immediate plans for a capital increase...
Bank President Ajay Banga turned up in Nairobi alongside at least 15 African heads of state...
New climateWorld Bank President Ajay Banga who was appointed in May has been a US citizen since 2007...
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World Bank President Ajay Banga has been on the diplomatic trail trying to drum up support for capital increases from wealthy countries to drive an additional US$100 billion of lending capacity...
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Spelling out sweeping reforms in the public sector President Bola Tinubu told Ajay Banga President of the World Bank in Abuja on 4 August that he was refocusing state spending to boost growth expand power generation and communications...
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During a discussion with Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank President Ajay Banga Ruto called for both organisations to be replaced as the main global lenders as part of an overhaul of the financial system (Dispatches 28/6/23 Rich economies side-step African calls for global tax treaty)...
Then it became clear that little was going to move on the plan until Ajay Banga the new President of the World Bank and former chief executive of Mastercard took over at the end of May replacing David Malpass...