World Bank [to 22 November 2014]
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Statement by Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group Following the United Nations’ Chief Executives Board Meeting on Ebola
Date: November 21, 2014

New Partnership to Help Bring Clean Cooking to 100 Million Households by 2020
NEW YORK CITY, November 21, 2014 – A major new partnership between the World Bank Group and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will work to spur a transition to clean cooking for 100 million households, which still use inefficient cookstoves and solid fuels for cooking.The new, five-year Efficient Clean Cooking and Heating Partnership was announced today at the Cookstoves Future Summit in New York – a gathering of leaders from across the international community focused on new efforts to speed up the adoption of clean cooking and end household air pollution from traditional cooking, which takes 4.3 million lives a year in developing countries. The partnership will support in-country programs undertaken by both the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (the Alliance) and the World Bank Group, and will be managed by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP).“This new initiative builds on years of learning and experience by the World Bank Group…
Date: November 21, 2014

Nearly Half of Liberia’s Workforce No Longer Working since Start of Ebola Crisis
Negative Economic Impacts of Virus Seen Throughout the Country, with Serious Consequences for the Poor and Vulnerable
WASHINGTON, November 19, 2014— Ebola has substantially impacted all sectors of employment in the Liberian economy, in both affected and non-affected counties, according to the most recent round of mobile phone surveys conducted by the World Bank Group in partnership with the Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services and the Gallup Organization. In all, nearly half of those working in Liberia when the Ebola outbreak began are no longer working as of early November 2014.“ Even those living in the most remote communities in Liberia, where Ebola has not been detected, are suffering the economic side effects of this terrible disease,” said Ana Revenga, Senior Director of the Poverty Global Practice at the World Bank Group..
Date: November 19, 2014

World Bank Group Approves US$285 Million Grant for Ongoing Ebola Crisis Response
November 18, 2014
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2014—The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$285 million grant to finance Ebola-containment efforts underway in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as to help communities in the three countries cope with the socioeconomic impact of the crisis and rebuild and strengthen essential health services. The grant is part of the nearly US$1 billion previously announced by the World Bank Group for the countries hardest hit by the Ebola crisis.
The grant provides additional financing to the Ebola Emergency Response Project approved by the WBG’s Board on September 16, 2014, including US$72 million for Guinea, US$115 million for Liberia and US$98 million for Sierra Leone, the three countries most-affected by Ebola.
Today’s announcement brings the total financing approved so far from the World Bank Group’s International Development Association (IDA)* Crisis Response Window (CRW) for the Ebola response to US$390 million. The CRW is designed to help low-income IDA countries recover from severe disasters and crises…