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BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) was launched in 2015. The NDB will lend money to developing countries to help finance infrastructure projects. The NDB is an alternative to the World Bank and also the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Development Economics in 2025: Challenges and Opportunities for Emerging Markets - Livestream Notes

20th February 2025
Breaking Myths: Surprising Insights from 2024’s Development Economics Research

29th December 2024
From Burden to Opportunity: Côte d’Ivoire’s Debt-for-Development Revolution

29th December 2024
IB Economics - Economic Growth and Economic Development

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Breaking Free from the Middle-Income Trap: A 3i Roadmap to Prosperity

2nd August 2024
4.3.3 IMF, World Bank and NOGs (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

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Debt burdens threaten progress in cutting absolute poverty

12th October 2023
4.3.2. Economics of Foreign Currency Gaps (Edexcel)

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4.3.2 Factors Influencing Growth and Development (Edexcel)

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4.3.1 Measures of Development (Edexcel)

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Is an expanding BRICS a challenger to G7?

28th August 2023
Growth and Development Profile - Zambia

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Development Economics - Joint Ventures and Developing Countries

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World Bank chief calls for hike in funding to help developing world

31st March 2023
Does Micro Finance Aid Poverty Reduction and Economic Development?

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Time to rethink how the World Bank operates

20th February 2023
Economic Development - Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity?

3rd February 2023
Give Directly - Unconditional Cash Transfers to Lift Human Capital

30th January 2023
Progress in Reducing Extreme Poverty Grinds to a Halt

21st October 2022
Development Finance - The Cost of being in Debt to China

4th May 2022
Development Finance - The Myth of the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa

20th March 2022
Development Economics: Is China burdening low income countries with unsustainable debt?

7th January 2022
Infrastructure and Development in Burkina Faso

18th November 2021
Development Barriers - How to Attract Private Finance to Africa’s Development

4th August 2021
World Bank

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Micro Finance and Economic Development - Revision Presentation

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Absolute Poverty - 2021 Revision Update

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Campaigners urge IMF to sell gold to provide debt relief

12th October 2020
Asia sees first regional economic recession in sixty years

15th September 2020
Coronavirus update: Decades of development progress are at risk

29th July 2020
Could Africa one day rival China?

8th April 2020
Financial Markets and Economic Development

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A* Exam Technique: Evaluating government borrowing to promote development

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Development Podcast, a new flagship series from the World Bank

28th January 2020
Community Grain Banks and Basic Development

4th April 2019
Inclusive Development

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Professor Ian Goldin: "Development: A Very Short Introduction"

9th June 2018
Barriers to Economic Development (June 2018 Update)

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Economic Development in Focus - Low Income Housing & Sanitation

1st June 2018
India transforms the roof solar power industry

7th December 2017
IMF support for low income countries

5th October 2017
A Big Bond for Africa

17th April 2017
8 Reasons for Fast Growth and Development in the Asian Region

10th May 2015
African governments issue more sovereign bonds

29th September 2015

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