World Bank unveils $16 billion Africa Climate Business Plan

The World Bank Group today unveiled a new plan that calls for $16 billion in funding to help African people and countries adapt to climate change and build up the continent's resilience to climate shocks.

7 reasons your business may be stagnant

Business stagnancy is a negative that every enterprise builder should prevent or conquer. It is undesirable and could be energy sapping. When a fellow is running round in circles without progress, life experience becomes brutish.

A few possible causes of stagnation and suggestions on how to guide against them would suffice at this juncture.

Reforms in emerging economies ease start-up

Emerging economies quickened the pace of their business reforms during the last 12 months to make it easier for local businesses to start and operate, says the World Bank Group's annual ease of doing business measurement.

Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency finds that 85 developing economies implemented 169 business reforms during the past year, compared with 154 reforms the previous year. High-income economies carried out an additional 62 reforms, bringing the total for the past year to 231 reforms in 122 economies around the world.