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Saturday, May 7, 2011


Economy-Uganda: World Bank Faults Government On Increased Expenditure
Afrique en Ligue
World Bank Faults Government On Increased Expenditure - The World Bank has
urged the Uganda government to prioritise its budget framework and stop its
extravagant public expenditures, which are unhealthy to the country's
economy. ...
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World Bank President supports further Moroccan reforms and civic participation
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
Finishing a visit to Morocco today, World Bank Group President Robert B.
Zoellick said that Morocco' s economic reforms and decade of good economic
growth could be expanded through further reform and greater civic
participation. ...
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SALLY SANTANA | It's a time of hunger, but also of hope
Kitsap Sun
By Sally Santana In the news last month, The World Bank reported that "some
44 million more people have been driven into extreme poverty since last
June because of higher food costs " The bank defines extreme poverty as
"living on $1.25 or less per day ...
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World Bank MD to visit city
Indian Express
World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo Iweala will visit Mumbai to
review works under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project. Sources said World
Bank officials had scheduled a meeting with the Chief Secretary Ratnakar
Gaikwad on Thursday to appraise the ...
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Rwanda moves central bank governor in reshuffle
Reuters Africa
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame appointed the country's
central bank governor as minister for trade and industry in his first
reshuffle since being re-elected with 93 percent of the vote last year.
Francois Kanimba, a former World Bank ...
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Conservationists want President's help to save WB ecosystems project
Sunday Times.lk
By Kumudini Hettiarachchi While the human-elephant conflict (HEC) reaches
tragic proportions, top conservationists have sought the urgent
intervention of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to save a World Bank project, a
main component of which was the ...
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Luhri hydel project faces green opposition
myHimachal
Environmental activists and local villagers have questioned the proposed
building of the World Bank funded 775 MW Luhri project by SJVNL in Himachal
Pradesh. “The environment clearance public hearings for the project were
organised from 5 to 7 May at ...
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New 'Safe Water for Africa' programme launched
BusinessGhana
The statement noted that the programme had won the backing of the World
Bank, International Financial Corporation and other respected
organizations. The WHI, it said, works in partnership with communities to
determine the appropriate, affordable, ...
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Farm sector earns more despite floods
DAWN.com
By Shahid Iqbal | From the Newspaper The World Bank recently reported that
the flood-affected people in Sindh, who comprise 23 per cent of the total
provincial population, are living in a condition even worse than the
poorest Africa. ...
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On the GOP's Absurd Claim That Obama Is Strangling Business
Huffington Post (blog)
That nominal rate -- which hasn't changed under Obama -- is among the
highest in the industrialized world. But the effective corporate tax rate
is far lower -- a 2009 study by the World Bank found our effective
corporate tax rates to be lower than ...
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=== Blogs - 1 new result for [world bank] ===

World Bank API Maintenance on May 6th - Windows Azure Marketplace ...
By Max Uritsky
Windows Azure DataMarket, which was first announced as Microsoft Project
Codename “Dallas” at PDC 2009, changes the way information is exchanged
by offering a wide range of content from authoritative commercial & public
sources in a ...
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=== Web - 3 new results for [world bank] ===

The New Education Strategy at the World Bank: Time for a ...
Last Friday I spoke at this event “What Works in Education”, a research
colloquium sponsored by the World Bank, J-PAL, and USAID (which, like the
World Bank ...
<http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/the-new-education-strategy-at-the-world-bank-time-for-a-millennium-learning-goal.php>

What Role for Coal in the World Bank Energy Strategy? | Use ...
A little more than a year ago the World Bank's highly controversial $3.75
billion loan for one of the world's largest coal plants - the 4800-megawatt
(MW) ...
<http://www.celsias.com/article/coal-wrong-for-world-bank-energy-strategy/>

WB Supports Climate Change Commission's Action Plan - World Bank Group
MANILA, MAY 3, 2011—The World Bank supports the Philippines' climate
change agenda and will highlight the country's climate change action plan
in ...