All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
World Bank President Robert Zoellick accurately captured the plight of many poor families in Nigeria, in a statement at the ongoing United Nations Special Session in New York. While announcing the bank's $1.1 billion expansion of its malaria-fighting programmes in Africa, he said in part: "Malaria is a crushing development for poor people and developing countries… Malaria preys on the poor and keeps...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick said yesterday that malaria may impede Nigeria 's drive to realising the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
A meeting -- which included British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Australian Prime Minister Mark Rudd, Jordan's Queen Rania, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick and former child laborers -- was meant to boost the effort to eradicate illiteracy and provide universal primary schooling by 2015. A coalition of governments, charities and U.N. agencies pledged $4.5 billion on Thursday in an effort to get all...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced on Thursday an extra funding of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars for the anti-malaria programs in Africa. In a statement at the UN General Assembly's one-day High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals, Zoellick said that the additional funding would help sharply reduce the numbers of malaria-related deaths and illness in the next three years. "Malaria...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Here at CGI, the World Food Program and Yum! Brands announced an $80 million commitment to fight world hunger. In partnership with the World Food Program the World Bank committed for the first time to open its $1.2 billion global...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned on Wednesday of the economic damage that developing countries, already reeling from high food and fuel prices, could suffer from the global financial crisis.
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, who is in New York for the 63rd session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, has discussed with World Bank President Robert Zoellick, the role the international financial institution can play in Asia's development.
Channel 4 News - Faisal Islam (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick says the financial crisis could have dire consequences in developing countries unless action is taken quickly, reports Faisal Islam .
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Friday called for a new approach to fragile states focused on "securing development" to help people in those countries escape from poverty and civil war. There need to be an "overhaul" of the multilateral approach to meet the current challenges regarding fragile states such as Afghanistan and Iraq, Zoellick told an international conference of security policymakers...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
from the International Herald Tribune World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned Friday that international community must work harder in aiding so-called "fragile" states, home to about 20 percent of the world's population, or risk them becoming the safe havens for terrorists. Zoellick said such nations, which range from Afghanistan to Timor, can become the weak link in the global security chain...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The World Bank President Robert Zoellick said adherence to the rule of law, fighting corruption and ensuring transparency would create the right climate for investment in Nigeria, reported the News Agency of Nigeria Wednesday. Zoellick disclosed this on the sideline of the Third High Level Forum in Accra, adding that Nigeria had great potential for growth. According to him, Nigeria is a country with...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The international community needs to overhaul its approach to fragile states, Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, will say today. In a speech at the...
Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
" Global Famine: Is it a Conspiracy? by Eric Walberg F ood protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months. On 2 April, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting in Washington that there are 33 countries where price hikes could cause widespread social unrest. The UN World Food Programme called the crisis the silent tsunami, with wheat prices almost doubling in...
Counterfire blogg (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Food protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months. On 2 April, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting in Washington that there are 33 countries where price hikes could cause widespread social unrest. The UN World Food Programme called the crisis the silent tsunami, with wheat prices [...]
cryfreedom (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Global Famine. Is It A Conspiracy ? Food protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months. On 2 April, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting in Washington that there are 33 countries where price hikes could cause widespread social unrest. The UN World Food Programme called the crisis the silent tsunami, with wheat prices almost doubling in the past year alone,...
