-regional partnership between East Africa and South Asia seeking to integrate indigenous knowledge and practices into Bank supported … operations. The aim was to leverage the experience of IK good practices from South Asia into Bank supported projects in East … Asia and Africa for centuries; similarly, local healers have used medicinal plants in India and Tanzania to treat common …

South Asia remains the fastest growing region in the world. With a strong performance in the eastern part of the region … comfortable levels. Progress on fiscal consolidation has been more gradual and public debt levels remain high. South Asia …'s performance will maintain momentum, with the gap between its growth rate and that of East Asia slightly widening over time …

of 'globalization.' Ravallion views the issue through both 'macro' and 'micro' empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …