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Both World Bank shareholders and the Bank’s management have emphasised the need for large-scale private investment to achieve development and climate goals. For the World Bank Group, this means collaborating more closely between its different institutions, an issue that World Bank President Ajay Banga has prioritised. This paper examines the extent to which these ambitions are being translated into practice, using energy-related reforms, with a focus on renewable energy sources, as an example. Through three country case studies (Romania, Bangladesh and Cameroon), it examines how the Bank’s diagnostic work is reflected in its country strategies and policy-based lending programmes. Coherence is assessed using nine questions. The case studies show that despite many cross-references between the documents and some parallels in the analysis of key constraints, three challenges emerge. First, the diagnostic documents lack coherence. Second, the issues raised in these documents are often not translated into the Country Partnership Frameworks (CPFs). Third, in many cases there is a very weak link between the proposals in the diagnostic documents and the CPF on the one hand, and the policy-based lending programme with its prior actions (PAs) and disbursement-linked indicators (DLIs) on the other. The PAs and DLIs are often unambitious. The paper recommends four reforms to address these shortcomings: (1) Diagnostic documents should indicate which policy reforms are considered most binding and suggest steps to address them. In addition, all CPFs should include an annex with the diagnostic documents’ main operational (policy) proposals and how they are reflected in the CPF. (2) CPFs should explicitly explain how management intends to use country platforms. If their use is not considered feasible, the CPF should explain why. (3) Given that fiscal policy is a powerful tool for decarbonising the energy sector, and given the underperformance in translating reform needs into policy-based programmes and appropriate PAs/DLIs, the Bank should review its approach in this area; the new, planned energy policy would be a first opportunity. (4) As bringing together private and public sector perspectives is key to mobilising private sector investment, the Bank’s management should include public sector perspectives and representatives in the Private Sector Lab, set up by the Bank’s president in 2023. The Bank’s management is currently reforming both its country engagement model and its energy policy strategy. Moreover, it has introduced some organisational changes aimed at fostering a closer cooperation between its various institutions. The recommendations in this paper should be considered in this context. Implementing the recommendations would greatly increase private capital mobilisation, which was a key issue on the agenda for the Financing for Development conference in Seville in July 2025.

Both World Bank shareholders and the Bank’s management have emphasised the need for large-scale private investment to achieve development and climate goals. For the World Bank Group, this means collaborating more closely between its different institutions, an issue that World Bank President Ajay Banga has prioritised. This paper examines the extent to which these ambitions are being translated into practice, using energy-related reforms, with a focus on renewable energy sources, as an example. Through three country case studies (Romania, Bangladesh and Cameroon), it examines how the Bank’s diagnostic work is reflected in its country strategies and policy-based lending programmes. Coherence is assessed using nine questions. The case studies show that despite many cross-references between the documents and some parallels in the analysis of key constraints, three challenges emerge. First, the diagnostic documents lack coherence. Second, the issues raised in these documents are often not translated into the Country Partnership Frameworks (CPFs). Third, in many cases there is a very weak link between the proposals in the diagnostic documents and the CPF on the one hand, and the policy-based lending programme with its prior actions (PAs) and disbursement-linked indicators (DLIs) on the other. The PAs and DLIs are often unambitious. The paper recommends four reforms to address these shortcomings: (1) Diagnostic documents should indicate which policy reforms are considered most binding and suggest steps to address them. In addition, all CPFs should include an annex with the diagnostic documents’ main operational (policy) proposals and how they are reflected in the CPF. (2) CPFs should explicitly explain how management intends to use country platforms. If their use is not considered feasible, the CPF should explain why. (3) Given that fiscal policy is a powerful tool for decarbonising the energy sector, and given the underperformance in translating reform needs into policy-based programmes and appropriate PAs/DLIs, the Bank should review its approach in this area; the new, planned energy policy would be a first opportunity. (4) As bringing together private and public sector perspectives is key to mobilising private sector investment, the Bank’s management should include public sector perspectives and representatives in the Private Sector Lab, set up by the Bank’s president in 2023. The Bank’s management is currently reforming both its country engagement model and its energy policy strategy. Moreover, it has introduced some organisational changes aimed at fostering a closer cooperation between its various institutions. The recommendations in this paper should be considered in this context. Implementing the recommendations would greatly increase private capital mobilisation, which was a key issue on the agenda for the Financing for Development conference in Seville in July 2025.

Both World Bank shareholders and the Bank’s management have emphasised the need for large-scale private investment to achieve development and climate goals. For the World Bank Group, this means collaborating more closely between its different institutions, an issue that World Bank President Ajay Banga has prioritised. This paper examines the extent to which these ambitions are being translated into practice, using energy-related reforms, with a focus on renewable energy sources, as an example. Through three country case studies (Romania, Bangladesh and Cameroon), it examines how the Bank’s diagnostic work is reflected in its country strategies and policy-based lending programmes. Coherence is assessed using nine questions. The case studies show that despite many cross-references between the documents and some parallels in the analysis of key constraints, three challenges emerge. First, the diagnostic documents lack coherence. Second, the issues raised in these documents are often not translated into the Country Partnership Frameworks (CPFs). Third, in many cases there is a very weak link between the proposals in the diagnostic documents and the CPF on the one hand, and the policy-based lending programme with its prior actions (PAs) and disbursement-linked indicators (DLIs) on the other. The PAs and DLIs are often unambitious. The paper recommends four reforms to address these shortcomings: (1) Diagnostic documents should indicate which policy reforms are considered most binding and suggest steps to address them. In addition, all CPFs should include an annex with the diagnostic documents’ main operational (policy) proposals and how they are reflected in the CPF. (2) CPFs should explicitly explain how management intends to use country platforms. If their use is not considered feasible, the CPF should explain why. (3) Given that fiscal policy is a powerful tool for decarbonising the energy sector, and given the underperformance in translating reform needs into policy-based programmes and appropriate PAs/DLIs, the Bank should review its approach in this area; the new, planned energy policy would be a first opportunity. (4) As bringing together private and public sector perspectives is key to mobilising private sector investment, the Bank’s management should include public sector perspectives and representatives in the Private Sector Lab, set up by the Bank’s president in 2023. The Bank’s management is currently reforming both its country engagement model and its energy policy strategy. Moreover, it has introduced some organisational changes aimed at fostering a closer cooperation between its various institutions. The recommendations in this paper should be considered in this context. Implementing the recommendations would greatly increase private capital mobilisation, which was a key issue on the agenda for the Financing for Development conference in Seville in July 2025.

La vie de Muhammadu Buhari a connu des changements spectaculaires au fil des décennies, et il a souvent été au cœur des événements.

An evaluation of the U.N. country teams states that the resident coordinator system has “proven challenging” with “limited results.” Where to now for the U.N. at 80?

An evaluation of the U.N. country teams states that the resident coordinator system has “proven challenging” with “limited results.” Where to now for the U.N. at 80?

An evaluation of the U.N. country teams states that the resident coordinator system has “proven challenging” with “limited results.” Where to now for the U.N. at 80?

Bien qu'il ait promis de rétablir la démocratie dans son pays, le chef de la junte malienne, le général Assimi Goita, s'est vu accorder un mandat présidentiel de cinq ans par le parlement de transition, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'organiser des élections.

Parliament and Council teams have reached an agreement on new priorities for and modifications to the current cycle of EU cohesion funding.
Committee on Regional Development

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Le Tribunal confirme la décision du Parlement européen de recouvrer des sommes indument perçues par M. Jean-Marie Le Pen
The General Court of the European Union upholds the decision of the European Parliament to recover sums unduly received by Jean-Marie Le Pen

Pour la première fois depuis son retour à la Maison Blanche, Donald Trump s'engage à mettre de nouvelles armes à la disposition de l'Ukraine.

Ohne direkte Mehrbelastung jüngerer Generationen: Sonderabgabe auf alle Alterseinkünfte würde einkommensschwache Rentner*innenhaushalte entlasten und Altersarmut reduzieren – Umverteilung nur in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung wäre hingegen wenig zielgenau Ein „Boomer-Soli“ – eine Solidaritäts ...

Les orthodoxes roumains d'Ukraine sont pris en tenaille dans le conflit entre les Églises de Kiev et de Moscou. Ils voudrait se rattacher au patriarcat de Bucarest, ce que refuse l'Ukraine. En juin, des incidents ont éclaté à Tchernivtsi, en Bucovine.

- Articles / orthodoxie, Roumanie, Religions, Relations régionales, Courrier des Balkans

Depuis le début de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie, des dizaines de ressortissants russes, souvent liés au Kremlin, ont obtenu la citoyenneté serbe par décret. Une enquête du site d'investigation IStories.

- Le fil de l'Info / Ukraine, Poutine et les Balkans, Serbie, Russie Balkans, Défense, police et justice, Relations internationales

Parliament and Council negotiators have reached a provisional agreement on changes to the European Social Fund+ to boost skills in the defence and decarbonisation industries.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

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‘‘Je suis la résurrection et la vie. Celui qui croit en moi vivra, même s'il meurt ; et celui qui vit et croit en moi ne mourra jamais.'' (Jean 11 :25- 27)

La grande famille KPAGNAWNE à DANO Gbièlgane , DANO, Ouaga, Bobo ;
La famille allié ZAW à DANO DAZOUBOPOUO, DANO, Ouaga, Bobo, Yaoundé, Rouan ;

Les parents, les frères et sœurs HIEN Eloge, HIEN Victory, KOMPAORE Yvette, Abbé HIEN Ignace, Abbé HIEN Hilaire, HIEN Françoise, Jean Edouard DABIRE, Hélène DABIRE, Kisito DABIRE, Jeanne d'Arc DABIRE, Sèbar DABIRE, Arsène Armand HIEN, Marius SOME, Dar Innocent SOME
La veuve Rose HIEN/DABIRE ;
Les enfants DABIRE Inès, DABIRE Elodie, DABIRE Kevin, DABIRE cynthia,
Les petits enfants : Gloria, Fabiola, Urielle et Nathan

Vous réitèrent leurs sincères remerciements pour vos nombreuses marques d'amitié, de sympathie, de compassion, de soutien spirituel, moral, matériel, financier et vos soutiens multiformes lors du rappel à Dieu de leur fils, père, frère, oncle, grand-père :

Ferdinand DABIRE, journaliste à la retraite ;
Décès survenu le jeudi 03 juillet 2025 suivi de l'inhumation et des obsèques le samedi 06 juillet 2025 à DANO Gbièlgane.

Ils remercient les autorités nationales et provinciales, les parents, voisins, jeunes de DANO, les collègues de services, amis et connaissances de la famille.
La famille se garde de citer de noms de peur d'en oublier.
Que le seigneur dans sa miséricorde divine, vous rende au centuple vos prières et bienfaits.

Union de prière

L'Ambassade du Danemark à Ouagadougou et l'ensemble du personnel ont la profonde douleur de vous annoncer le décès de Mme Fatoumata IDE/CISSE, précédemment Coordonnatrice du Secteur Résilience Agriculture - Secteur Privé, survenu le vendredi 11 juillet 2025 à Ouagadougou des suites de maladie.

L'Ambassade présente ses condoléances les plus attristées à la famille éplorée.

Un livre de condoléances est ouvert à l'Ambassade du 15 au 17 juillet 2025 de 9h00 à 14h00 pour recueillir les messages d'hommages qui seront transmis à la famille.

La levée du corps est prévue pour le mercredi 16 juillet à 5h du matin à la morgue du CHU Bogodogo suivie du transfert de la dépouille mortelle à l'Aéroport International de Ouagadougou pour Bamako au Mali où se dérouleront les obsèques.

Unions de prières.

Ambassade du Danemark au Burkina Faso

MEPs on Tuesday adopted suggestions for reforms to the tax architecture to boost competitiveness while continuing to address tax avoidance and evasion.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Subcommittee on Tax Matters

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Our paper examined the impact of economic sanctions on food prices and security. Anecdotal evidence suggests that food security is threatened in nations subject to sanctions. However, the causal link has not been proven. We employ a two-way fixed-effects approach and leverage the entropy balancing technique to ascertain the existence of a causal link. Our analysis relies on the Global Sanctions Database for sanctions and the FAOSTAT database for food security proxies: food prices and prevalence of undernourishment (PoU). Sanctions increase food prices: during the sanctions period, real food prices are higher by 1.24 percentage points compared to the non-sanctions period. Although the increase in food prices is marginal, overall food security is threatened, as the PoU is 2.1 percentage points higher during sanctions compared to periods without sanctions.