DATA news (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group said.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the World Bank's internal watchdog, is about to release its newest assessment of the Bank's record on the environment, and according to Environmental Defense Fund, the news is not good. The evaluation analyzes the effectiveness of the World Bank Group in addressing the environmental sustainability of its programs in developing countries over the period of 1990-2007....
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced the
tahrcountry (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Environmental campaigners had always criticized the way World Bank doled out aid to developing countries. They have been consistently arguing that it has led to deforestation in the tropics. Here is proof that they were right in voicing their concern. World banks bank’s Independent Evaluation Group has criticized the bank for failures to grasp fully the environmental impacts of its programmes in poor...
Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
World Bank Shots on Corruption Source: The Wall Street Journal July 23, 2008 The World Bank is nothing if not persistent. In recent weeks, the bank has announced low-interest loans of $320 million apiece to Bangladesh and Vietnam, despite their awful corruption records. Since May, Bangladesh's military-backed government has arrested an estimated 12,000 people without charge and confined them to overcrowded...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
from the New York Times By ANDREW C. REVKIN The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group concludes in a new report. The review, released Tuesday, examined some of the $400 billion in investments in nearly 7,000 projects from 1990 to 2007. It found that recent pledges for environmental...
jobgolds (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
To strengthen the World Bank’s infrastructure program in the Indonesia, the World Bank Office in Jakarta is recruiting for the position of: Water and Sanitation Specialist(Job #081525) The applicant should possess the following characteristics: Master’s Degree or higher in water and sanitation engineering, WSS engineering and utility management experience, or other field related to utility or municipal...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The plan to improve the station areas is moving at snail speed as the city's developers are no longer under the whip of World Bank (WB) officials.
Moco News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives is gearing up for mobile banking, having received a $7.7 million loan from the World Bank to do so. According to the BBC its an ideal place to start mobile banking with a relatively high GDP and mobile penetration (from the CIA World Factbook , GDP per capita was an estimated $4,600 last year, and back in 2006 mobile penetration was about 70 percent). Perhaps...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Mongabay : Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical forests under an innovative carbon finance scheme. The initiative, known as the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), was unveiled last year as a way to kick start Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a proposed mechanism that would reward countries with carbon...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | yesterday
"If you look at the World Bank report on Doing Business, you will realize that Cameroon is backwards and much still needs to be done." US Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Garvey. ]]>
KTemoc Konsiders ........ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Malaysiakini news report on Ex-World Bank, IMF bosses: M'sia should drop Anwar charges tells us again of how those heads of organizations close to Anwar Ibrahim have rallied behind him. A day or two ago, none other than Condoleeza Rice, the US Secretary of State also voiced her support of Anwar, ominously warning the Malaysian government that the sodomy charges against Anwar has been viewed with suspicions...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The World Bank and the Government of Rwanda yesterday, signed two IDA grant agreements worth US$41 million (Frw22.16 billion).
The Bayesian Heresy (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the World Bank; TIGER CONSERVATION: MOVING LESSONS LEARNT TOWARDS A WINNING STRATEGY Related; Hoisted from Comments by Tony Whitten; As one of the Bank's team which organized the Tiger Event on June 9 and the author of the blog to which you link, let me give my perspective on this reasonable question. I regard biodiversity protection (e.g. of tigers) as an integral part of development and is part...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Walker takes a long hard look at the causes of global food inflation. He looks at the three theories: Newspapers have cited an internal World Bank document as having found that 75% of the price increase was due to biofuels Several governments and commentators see speculation as a major driving force. Widely held view has it that [...]
