Transcript of Media Roundtable for East Asia and the Pacific

David Malpass, President of the World Bank, remarked that the immediate priority for developing countries is widespread access to Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines that match their deployment programs. in response to the sharp increase in demand, the World Bank has increased financing for vaccines to...

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Main Author: Malpass, David
Format: Speech
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-359422021-07-17T05:10:51Z Transcript of Media Roundtable for East Asia and the Pacific Malpass, David COVID-19 VACCINATION PLASTIC POLLUTION FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES VACCINATION FINANCE DEBT RELIEF COMMON FRAMEWORK CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS EMISSION REDUCTION David Malpass, President of the World Bank, remarked that the immediate priority for developing countries is widespread access to Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines that match their deployment programs. in response to the sharp increase in demand, the World Bank has increased financing for vaccines to twenty billion dollars globally over the next eighteen months. He spoke about providing grants to the countries that are most in need, including fragile and small states. The World Bank is working jointly with the IMF in order to use the Common Framework in order to provide debt relief for countries and create the fiscal space they need. The new World Bank climate change action plan is going to create a shift in paradigm in order to connect development and investment and to focus on priorities in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 2021-07-16T15:28:01Z 2021-07-16T15:28:01Z 2021-07-15 Speech http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/895671626428245552/Transcript-of-World-Bank-Group-President-David-Malpasss-Media-Roundtable-for-East-Asia-and-the-Pacific http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35942 English Remarks delivered July 15, 2021; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: President's Speech
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topic COVID-19 VACCINATION
PLASTIC POLLUTION
FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES
VACCINATION FINANCE
DEBT RELIEF
COMMON FRAMEWORK
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
EMISSION REDUCTION
spellingShingle COVID-19 VACCINATION
PLASTIC POLLUTION
FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES
VACCINATION FINANCE
DEBT RELIEF
COMMON FRAMEWORK
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
EMISSION REDUCTION
Malpass, David
Transcript of Media Roundtable for East Asia and the Pacific
relation Remarks delivered July 15, 2021;
description David Malpass, President of the World Bank, remarked that the immediate priority for developing countries is widespread access to Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines that match their deployment programs. in response to the sharp increase in demand, the World Bank has increased financing for vaccines to twenty billion dollars globally over the next eighteen months. He spoke about providing grants to the countries that are most in need, including fragile and small states. The World Bank is working jointly with the IMF in order to use the Common Framework in order to provide debt relief for countries and create the fiscal space they need. The new World Bank climate change action plan is going to create a shift in paradigm in order to connect development and investment and to focus on priorities in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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