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Colombia's central bank board is expected to hold the benchmark interest rate at 9.25% on Friday, on the back of mounting fiscal uncertainty and despite recent lower inflation.

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The World Bank’s board of executive directors has sanctioned a grant to strengthen Syria’s electricity recovery project.

This project represents the first step in a planned increase in World Bank support to Syria on its path to recovery and ...

Syria's banks, long-time pariahs in the global financial system, are expected to resume ties with international lenders ...

The biggest amount went to Iraq, where the World Bank approved $930 million to help improve the country’s railway ...

The World Bank has approved a $146 million grant to aid Syria in restoring its electricity infrastructure, damaged by 14 ...

The executive board of the Washington-based multilateral lender has approved two separate programmes, with $146 million in funding going to Syria and $250 million allocated to Lebanon to repair and re ...

The World Bank has approved a $146 million grant to help Syria restore reliable, affordable electricity and support the ...

Jean-Christophe Carret, the World Bank’s Middle East regional director, said the newly approved support is the first phase of ...