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The World Health Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Bank, have consistently emphasized that investing in prevention can yield returns of two to five times per dollar spent, in both reduced healthcare costs and economic losses from people getting sick.
THE PHILIPPINES is still classified as a lower middle-income country after just missing the threshold to achieve upper middle-income country (UMIC) status, according to the World Bank. The World Bank’s latest country income classification showed the Philippines posted a record gross national income (GNI) per capita of $4,470. This was higher than its GNI per […]
The World Bank’s Spring 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief further highlights that between 2011 and 2023, around 171 million Indians were lifted out of extreme poverty. The national poverty rate declined from 16.2 percent to 2.3 percent during this period, based on the international poverty line of USD 2.15 per day. Get more Banking News and Business News on Zee Business.
Former CNBC anchor Tanvir Gill has joined The World Bank in New York as senior external affairs officer for media partnerships. “I will be looking into creating strategic media partnerships for the bank with new media & legacy media outfits,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “Those who know me, know that I am an ideas’ person […]
REFORMS to enhance job creation and quality could propel Philippine economic growth to close to 7% and transform it into a middle-class economy by 2040, the World Bank said. “To stay on a path to upper middle-income status and to realize the national ambition of a middle-class society free of poverty by 2040, the country […]
OVER the past 15 years, the Philippines has been one of East Asia’s most dynamic economies. Growth was fast, inclusive, and spatially balanced. Public investment in infrastructure surged, and reforms attracted private capital. As highlighted in the Philippines Growth and Jobs Report launched by the World Bank earlier in July, investment (or capital accumulation) accounted for nine out of every 10 dollars of GDP growth.