On 6 March the World Bank announced that it would suspend 'until further notice' its partnership framework with Tunisia with a letter by outgoing Bank President David Malpass stating that 'public comments that stir up discrimination attacks and racist violence are completely unacceptable'...
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Dealing with such critiques will be one of Banga's first tasks should he become the Bank's next president when David Malpass is due to step down in June (Dispatches 23/2/23 David Malpass quits bank as radical changes loom)...
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The resignation of World Bank President David Malpass a year before his term expires in April 2024 was well received by United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who had been prodding the institution to step up its efforts on climate finance and debt relief programmes...
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It has also secured some support from France's President Emmanuel Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and albeit more qualified from United States climate envoy John Kerry and World Bank President David Malpass...
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World Bank President David Malpass has pinned responsibility on China for being 'slow to help' on debt restructuring for Zambia and more broadly noting that China accounted for 66% of loans by bilateral creditors in 2021 and for the bulk of the 6...
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This latest row over the Bank's climate record comes at awkward time for the Bank's President David Malpass...
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World Bank President David Malpass said on 18 April that it is planning a $170bn crisis response fund running from this month to June 2023 with about $50bn to be disbursed over the next three months...
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Both Kristalina Georgieva and David Malpass the heads of the IMF and World Bank respectively face accusations that they presided over the manipulation of data for the Bank's 'Doing Business' index...
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When 16 African finance ministers including treasury chiefs from Egypt Ethiopia and Nigeria signed an open letter praising Kristalina Georgieva's leadership of the International Monetary Fund they were taking her side in what has become an institutional and personal battle with her counterpart at the World Bank David Malpass...
And if the G20 does eventually agree to a restructuring it can only persuade not compel Glencore to participate – even if World Bank President David Malpass has publicly called on Glencore to play 'engage in that debt sustainability effort'...
