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World Bank’s new boss must push ahead on reforms, fight poverty-French minister
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – France’s development minister said on Thursday she will tell the World Bank’s expected next president, Ajay Banga, to maintain the bank’s anti-poverty mission while forging ahead with next steps by October in its evolution to fight climate change and other global crises. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou told Reuters in an interview that she wants Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard, to use an international finance summit in Paris to develop ideas and plans for expanding climate finance and harnessing private sector funds. Zacharopoulou, a Greek-born gynecologist and former European Parliament member who was appointed France’s Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships 11 months…
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Indiana student’s nonprofit wants to fight economic inequalities
Most freshmen are just trying to get their feet below them when getting into superior university. But then there are some like Isaac Hertenstein, who entered substantial university seeking to tackle issues like economic inequality and monetary literacy in youth. That is what led Hertenstein, now a junior at Greencastle Large School, to start out College students Training Finance, a nonprofit that aims to use mostly substantial faculty-aged students to educate essential economical literacy and personalized finance techniques to K-8 students in their very own group. The two of Hertenstein’s mom and dad are educators and combining that background with his passion for economics, it would seem that it was…
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