Istanbul, 23 May 2016 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY  We at the EIB, the EU Bank, as one of the leading Multilateral Development Banks warmly welcome the commitments of the Group of 7 MDBs announced today to working together with national and international partners to respond to the global forced displacement crisis. Our response focuses on economic resilience within the context of the "One Humanity” agenda issued by the United Nations. We can contribute substantially and build on our comparative adv...

La BEI et le Fonds Kirchberg ont conclu une convention de mise à disposition d'un terrain situé le long du boulevard Konrad Adenauer. Le Ministre des Finances, Pierre Gramegna,  le Vice-Président de la BEI, Pim van Ballekom, le Président du Fonds Kirchberg Patrick Gillen, et Mme Pascale Welter, Receveur des Domaines, ont procédé à la signature de cette convention. Celle-ci donnera la possibilité à la BEI de construire un nouvel  immeuble de bureaux pour 1500 employés logés actuellement dans l...

The Lao People's Democratic Republic has designated agriculture and forestry a key sector since 1988, and made significant investments in order to shift from a subsistence economy to a market-oriented economy. Food security has been a priority and the lack of community-based irrigation facilities was seen as a major constraint on agricultural development.

The uncertain global economic outlook threatens to undermine the resolve of Asian countries to implement needed investments and policies to put their economies on an environmentally sustainable growth path, warns a report by IED at ADB.