Participatory Development and the World Bank: Potential Directions for Change (World Bank Discussion Paper)
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON: The World Bank has approved a $300 million Development Policy Loan (DPL) to Jordan to support the Government’s medium-term development program in the context of the current global economic crisis. The approval of the Recovery under Global Uncertainty Loan, came during a meeting of the World Bank’s governing goard of executive directors in Washington on Thursday.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The World Bank is to hold a one-day seminar on climate change for 100 youths across Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Saturday, citing an official. Habiba Gitay, the climate change environmentalist of the institution, disclosed this to reporters in Abuja on Friday, saying the seminar would focus on building the knowledge of participants representing youth NGOs on climate change. The seminar...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Estonia is set to become the next euro member as years of fiscal prudence help the former communist state recover faster than neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, a World Bank economist said. “It’s doing everything it can to keep the deficit within 3 percent of GDP this year,” Thomas Laursen, the World Bank’s country manager for Poland and the Baltics, said in an interview in Warsaw....
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Interview with the president of the World Bank on Obama's trip to China and the effects of the Chinese currency being pegged to the dollar
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The World Bank has provided a 110 million US dollar credit to Mozambique as direct budget support, under an agreement signed in Maputo on Friday by Planning and Cooperation Minister Aiuba Cuereneia and the World Bank representative in Maputo, Luiz Tavares.
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Investing in infrastructure is essential for the development and growth of a society. For example, by connecting farmers with local and regional markets, and providing access to school and health care facilities, infrastructure enables communities to prosper. However, a recent World Bank report, Africa’s Infrastructure: a Time for Transformation revealed that although Africa has made [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The World Bank's fund for 79 poorest countries has delivered record support during the global economic crisis, the international financial agency said Friday. In a statement, the World Bank said during the 15th replenishment period of the International Development Association (IDA15) from July 2008 to October 2009 , IDA commitments reached a record level of 16.9 billion U.S. dollars, a 50 percent increase...
The Morningside Post (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
After the Great Depression and World War II, the world powers got together in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and cooperated on a new framework for global economic relations and created the World Bank and IMF, institutions that persist today. In a roundtable discussion, Joseph Stiglitz, Benjamin Cohen and Adam Posen discuss why they think (or don't think) such a re-organization is possible in today's...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
With the world's population due to rise by a third by 2050, even more people will be hungry in addition to the 1 billion people who are hungry now. Further complicating the immediate need is the steady rise of food prices back to the highs of last year. From the Economist comes this examination of the problem and some warnings of what to avoid. It may be too late to avoid another bout of price rises....
Malaysia Property News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
PENANG should make its historic downtown area in George Town a centre of innovation, said a World Bank economist. By housing research institutes and post-graduate institutions in the area, World Bank economic adviser Dr Shahid Yusof yesterday said that the island state can lure foreign students to its shores. "As Penang repositions herself, intellectual hotspots in the downtown area can make Penang...
Forex Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Subtle title, right? I couldn’t resist, considering that literally all economists and government officials (outside of China, of course) have sounded off on the Chinese Yuan in the last month. Recent additions to this list include President Obama, Chiefs of the IMF and World Bank, President of the Asian Development Bank, US Commerce Secretary Locke [...]
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On Tuesday, Transparency International (TI) released their 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), revealing that many sub-Saharan African countries remain among the most corrupt world-wide. The annually-released index ranks how corrupt governments are perceived to be, according to international institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. The 2009...
Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Debbie Barker Image: Tom Twigg for GristThere are those who would like us to believe that industrialized farming is the only way to feed the earth’s growing population. Disinformation comes daily from powerful industrial agricultural companies whose profits depend entirely on the sale of chemicals, genetically modified (GM) seeds, and food processing. Furthermore, they maintain that massive-scale...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Micro finance Institution Funding : BB Governor Contradicts WB Observation Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rhaman on Tuesday expressed dismay over a World Bank observation regarding banking sector’s partnership with the microfinance institutions, according to report in local press. In a recent stocktaking, the World Bank observed that channeling money from the banks to farm loan projects through...
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As you might know, December 1st is World AIDS Day. To commemorate this annual event, the World Bank will be hosting a forum in Washington, DC on “Linking HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Maternal and Child Health.” Speakers and panelists will include US Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby, Executive Director of the Global Fund for AIDS, [...]
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timpayne2 | 11/16/2009
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