Gambia News
Business and personal finance related news about Gambia. This section focuses on news about Gambian economy, small business and personal finance.
15th April 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a disbursement of SDR 15.55 million (about US$21.3 million or 25 percent of its SDR quota) for The Gambia under the [……]
Washington, April 2, 2020 – The World Bank Board approved today a $10 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA)* for The Gambia to provide emergency assistance in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. [……]
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Jaroslaw Wieczorek, visited Banjul during February 3–11 to take stock of the 2019 SMP implementation and agree with The Gambian authorities on policies underpinning their request for [……]
Ambassador Paschall highlighted the importance of creating opportunities for producers and processors to boost economic development The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food For Progress (FFPr) Regional Cashew Value Chain Project is implementing a [……]
Seedstars World, the largest seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, has come to its peak during the latest edition Seedstars Summit Africa in South Africa, on December 3rd to 5th. Seedstars, [……]
On the 13th of September, 2019, around ten of The Gambia’s best seed-stage startups will compete to represent the country at the Seedstars Summit and win up to USD 500,000 in equity investments and other [……]
The Gambia 2019 Revenue Budget Total Revenue and Grants for 2019 is estimated at D25.3 billion (28.8 percent of GDP), a 28 percent growth from D19.8 billion (25.3 percent of the old GDP) budgeted in [……]
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of The Gambia met on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 to review recent economic developments and decide on the monetary policy rate. The following summarizes the deliberations [……]
The United Nations (UN) has released its Human Development Index (HDI) Report for 2018. The report looks at long-term trends of human development driven by changes in health, education and income, and is based on [……]
WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, October 3, 2018/APO Group Sub-Saharan African economies are still recovering from the slowdown in 2015-16, but growth is slower than expected, according to the October 2018 issue of Africa’s [……]
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