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Priya Basu is the Executive Head of the Secretariat for the newly established the Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank. Priya has also been serving as head of the Secretariat for the COVID-19 task ...
Priya Basu, head of the Women ... “It’s been very challenging in some ways to work with so many stakeholders,” Basu said of We-Fi, the World Bank “start-up” that provides loans, ...
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New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): India has made significant efforts to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure after the COVID-19 pandemic, said Priya Basu, Executive Head of the Pandemic Fund ...
The World Bank's fund to help developing countries better prepare for pandemics has raised $667 million from ... a small fraction of the global cost of responding to COVID-19" said Priya Basu, ...
By Priya Basu. It is Monday morning in the country office of the World Bank in New Delhi. I have spent a good part of the last four years here, leading the bank’s finance and private sector ...
The demand is a sign that pandemic prevention, preparedness and response needs more money and attention, the head of the fund's secretariat at the World Bank, Priya Basu, told Reuters.
Mumbai: Most mornings, Priya Basu travels to the other side of the world from her office in Washington, DC. The World Bank’s lead economist for South Asia rarely ventures out of a long ...
India has made significant efforts to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure after the COVID-19 pandemic, said Priya Basu, Executive Head of the Pandemic Fund at the World Bank.