Tag: Jorge Familiar

• Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 06:48 UTC

  BA Governor Vidal, World Bank agree to finance Salado River works

  

  María Eugenia Vidal, governor of the province of Buenos Aires, reached an agreement with the World Bank for a 380-million-dollars loan to finance infrastructure works that would be beneficial to more than sixty municipalities. Bidding to start in March.

• Saturday, January 23rd 2016 - 08:18 UTC

  One fifth of youngsters don’t study or work but still may have a chance

  

  By Jorge Familiar (*) - One out of every five Latin Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 wakes up every morning with no school to attend or paid job to do. Bogged down by economic constraints, early pregnancy, violence or low expectations, they are the so-called “ninis” — ni estudia, ni trabaja (neither studying nor working) — and they are more than 20 million strong.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2015 - 07:50 UTC

  World Bank claims there's 'no crisis in Latin America', but poverty still prevails

  

  The World Bank’s Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jorge Familiar, praised the region’s implementation of economic reforms, claiming that they had led to poverty reduction in the last few years, but he also warned that its pace was decreasing.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Understanding the drivers of prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean

  

  A new World Bank Group report, “Shared Prosperity and Poverty Eradication in Latin America and the Caribbean”, explores the performance of eight countries to understand what has driven progress, and what it will take to sustain it.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 05:16 UTC

  Chile chosen by World Bank for Latam’s first Research and Development Center

  

  Chile’s Finance Ministry Alberto Arenas, and the World Bank Group (WBG), represented by its Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jorge Familiar, signed a cooperation agreement to establish in Chile the first Research and Development Center in Latin America, and the second outside Washington, DC.

• Thursday, July 24th 2014 - 06:20 UTC

  World Bank praise for Peru as one of the most solid economies in the region

  

  The World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jorge Familiar, on Wednesday highlighted Peru's economic growth over the past 10 years. Peru's average economic growth over the period has registered 6. 5% annually, allowing many Peruvians to escape poverty, said Familiar.

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 07:16 UTC

  Mujica admits Mercosur problems but praises Brazil's open market attitude

  

  In a 'dialogue without ties' at the World Bank President Jose Mujica said that Uruguay is a 'frontier country' which history did not want it to belong to any of the two big neighbors (Argentina and Brazil) so that the Atlantic ocean would not be left to an only country.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC

  Mujica meets Obama on Monday with a long agenda of issues to discuss

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica flies on Saturday evening to the United States and on Monday at 10:45 will be walking into the White House for a sixty minutes meeting with President Barack Obama. Mujica will be spending five days in Washington where he has scheduled a long list of meetings and conferences.