For example, while China has issued loans to the populous country of Ethiopia, the country has debt of $29 billion, with the rest of it owed to World Bank and Middle Eastern states. ... The report makes clear that while Chinese loans have grown and play African development, they are..…
This was the basis of the series of measures set in place in the immediate aftermath of the war: the Bretton Woods monetary system which tied major currencies to the dollar in fixed exchange rates, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that sought to bring down tariff barriers and the establishment of..…
A Russian air strike targets the village of al-Muntar in Idlib The World Bank estimated in June 2017 that about one-third of all buildings and half of all Syrian schools and hospitals have been damaged or destroyed. ..…
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