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By Jill McGivering BBC News Attempts by the Indian government to combat
poverty are not working, according to the World Bank. The governing
coalition spends billions of dollars - more than 2% of its gross domestic
product - on helping the poor. ...
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More Palestinian reform needed, says World Bank
AFP
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority has taken "significant steps" to
improve governance and tackle rampant corruption but must follow through
with implementation, the World Bank said on Wednesday. In a report on the
state of economic governance in ...
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Six Emerging Economies Will Account For Over Half Of Economic Growth By 2025 ...
Huffington Post
The world economy, so long defined by the dominance of a few advanced
countries, has entered a period of "transformative change," according to a
new report by the World Bank. Globalization is shifting the balance of
power toward a handful of ...
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Ukraine to Receive $200 Million From The World Bank for Energy Efficiency
PR Newswire (press release)
KYIV, Ukraine, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the
World Bank (WB) has approved a $200 million loan to finance the "Project on
Energy Efficiency in Ukraine". The loan will finance investments in energy
saving programs in ...
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Ivory Coast Seeks Emergency Funding From IMF and World Bank After Crisis
Bloomberg
By Baudelaire Mieu and Olivier Monnier - Wed May 18 15:55:35 GMT 2011 Ivory
Coast's government is meeting a delegation from the International Monetary
Fund, the World Bank and the African Development Bank to discuss emergency
funds in a bid to ...
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World Bank to help in Dharavi?
Hindustan Times
The World Bank might fund the much-delayed Dharavi redevelopment project.
The bank's managing director Ngozi Okonjo Iweala indicated this after
meeting Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday. She discussed various
city-related issues with Chavan ...
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How Can We Solve the Riddle of Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
Fox News
Like Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank before him, he was ultimately done in
by missteps with women. In Wolfowitz's case, the scandal was simply caused
by misplaced love. In Strauss-Kahn, the allegation is just straightforward
crude and sordid sex. ...
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At IMF, the Noise of Old Order Creaking
Wall Street Journal (blog)
It is a minor milestone in what a World Bank report this week called
"multipolarity," a world with more than one or two economic powerhouses.
For nearly 60 years, the IMF job has been reserved for a European and the
top World Bank job for an ...
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How foreigners will buy the U.S.
Fortune
By Colin Barr May 18, 2011: 6:44 AM ET That's the message behind a World
Bank report this week that imagines what the global economy will look like
in a decade and a half. It is, to be blunt, a world in which Americans have
sold everything that isn't ...
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Seth Kahan and Steve Denning Lead a Collaborative Workshop, “Revolutionizing ...
PR.com (press release)
Seth Kahan, change leadership expert, and Steve Denning, former World Bank
director and award-winning author led a two-day gathering, May 12 & 13, in
Washington, DC on “Revolutionizing the World of Work” – a
conversation dedicated to reinventing ...
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=== Blogs - 5 new results for [world bank] ===
World Bank Sees Dollar Reserve Status Ending Over Next Decade ...
By Tyler Durden
The World Bank expects the US dollar to lose its solitary dominance in the
global economy by 2025, as the euro and the renminbi establish themselves
on an equal footing in a new “multi-currency” monetary system. ...
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World Bank: The Rise of the BRIICS A Harbinger Of A New World ...
By Eva Pereira
The days of U.S. global economic dominance are numbered. A report recently
released by the World Bank predicts that by 2025, a multi-polar world will
emerge in which economic clout is spread across developed and emerging
economies .
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World Bank: Mixed marks on Palestinian corruption | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday got mixed grades from the World Bank
on official corruption: It's doing well in managing public finances and
reducing nepotism in civil service hiring, but has failed to prosecute most
senior ...
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The Disaffected Lib: The World Bank Weighs In On Global Warming
By The Mound of Sound
Of course Mr. Thomas is from that lefty, tree-hugger outfit, The World
Bank. I'm slowly coming to appreciate that it may be the financial sector
that finally sweeps the Tar Heads and Petro-Pols like Steve Harper off the
porch and into ...
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World Bank's Open Access Publishing Program, Copyright & Licensing ...
By Lesley Ellen Harris
As recently announced, Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank, is guiding
the transition of the Bank's print publishing to largely electronic, open
access publishing. As part of this transition, The World Bank invited
several of its ...
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=== Web - 1 new result for [world bank] ===
Global Monitoring Report 2011 - Improving the ... - The World Bank
Two-thirds of developing countries are on track or close to meeting the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the World Bank and IMF's
latest ...
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