Nobel laureates, top government officials and eminent scholars from various parts of the world yesterday at the Global Leaders Forum organised by Oceanic Bank called for increased emphasis on investment in human capital development.

A World Bank arm will continue to help the National Registration Agency of Secured Transactions (NRAST) increase access to finance in Vietnam through improved and secure lending.

Botswana, Senegal and Burkina Faso are the only African countries in the top 10 list of business regulatory reformers while Mauritius is the continent's sole representative in the top 25 on regulatory ease of doing business, says the World Bank and the I

The contribution of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to the economic wellbeing of the nation could be made to double as long as training and soft loans are expertly availed to the sub-sector, according to a banking expert.

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