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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
For this special interview, marking the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Raphael Kahane talked to Robert Zoellick. He played an active role in behind-the-scenes negotiations within the US administration.
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Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | yesterday
SINGAPORE: World Bank president Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday a key lesson learnt from the global economic crisis is the need to keep evolving to promote openness in markets.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Singapore - World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Tuesday praised Asia's positive attitude in overcoming the global recession, saying that one critical outcome of the crisis was how Asia and the Asia-Pacific continued to work together. Most of the...
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ZombieChatter.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
“Nobody says that many bro’s sober!” 28 Drinks Later - watch more funny videos Related posts:Press 1 for English… Auto Phone Sex - watch more funny videos ...From Wall Street to … Sesame Street? While many still debate if our economy has “bottomed out,”...“End of Days” Coming Soon? “In just two months,” World Bank President Robert...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Labour slams peer's role as he joins William Hague for high-level trip to US Billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft was embroiled in fresh controversy last night after it emerged that he accompanied the shadow foreign secretary to key meetings overseas, amid rumours that he will be given a top foreign policy role in a future Conservative government. The Observer can reveal that the peer, who pumps millions...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Iran nuclear power center. (Photo from San Francisco Sentinel ) Tehran Rejects Nuclear Accord, Officials Report -- David E. Sanger, Steven Erlanger and Robert F. Worth, New York Times WASHINGTON — Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats...
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Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Bangladesh forms first tiger plan By Alastair Lawson BBC News Last updated at 12:11 GMT, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 The Bangladesh government has created its first national plan to conserve the endangered Royal Bengal tiger. The Tiger Action Plan aims to save an estimated 300-500 tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest. The area in the south-east of the country has one of the largest remaining Bengal...
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Global Development: Views from the Center (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Last week, the World Bank released the long-awaited report of a high-level commission headed by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo. The report, which had been requested by World Bank president Robert Zoellick, offers a comprehensive blueprint for modernizing the World Bank to deal with the challenges of the 21st Century. Zoellick, a U.S. appointee, thanked Zedillo [...]
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
America will have to get along with China. But which China will it be? “OUR policy has succeeded remarkably well: the dragon emerged and joined the world.” So said Robert Zoellick, then deputy secretary of state, in 2005, in a speech suffused with confidence in America’s ability to shape China’s progress. But, said Mr Zoellick, who is now president of the World Bank, China’s...
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ONE (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Daily Champion: Nigeria: A Climate Smart Future (Editorial, Robert Zoellick) World Bank President Robert Zoellick writes in the Nigerian newspaper the Daily Champion about the dire need for increased action on climate change in order to protect Africa from further challenges before it is too late. Zoellick emphasizes that the world’s poor will bear the brunt [...]
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The Whig (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Lawmakers show worry over U.S. dollar’s dwindling worldwide status New waves of concern are rippling through Congress over the state of the U.S. dollar amid record budget deficits. Lawmakers say there is a real danger of foreign investors losing faith in the dollar as a secure instrument if the nation’s debt continues to mount and the Federal Reserve fails to reabsorb trillions in commitments...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A direct result of Barack Obama being elected President and the Democrats take over of Congress is that the U.S. the deficit has grown to a record $1.4 Trillion. From AP : The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday. The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Battles over money and power at the World Bank and IMF “WE ARE into the world of politics”, said the World Bank’s president, Robert Zoellick, at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, held on October 6th and 7th in Istanbul. Mr Zoellick was referring to the disagreements between richer and poorer countries over his institution’s pleas for...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
World leaders at the opening of the plenary session of the 2009 IMF/World Bank meetings Tuesday in Istanbul believes globalization that puts Africa at risk is incomplete and irresponsible, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. The world leaders said the focus of globalization had been on the advanced countries, leaving the developing countries to suffer. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said more...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
&$ &$World Bank President Robert Zoellick addresses the participants of the 2009 Annual Meeting of IMF and World Bank in Istanbul October 6, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)&$ &$ World Bank President Robert Zoellick called Tuesday for a bigger voice for developing countries by giving them half of the voting rights in the 186-member Bank, urging the institution must reform to catch up with...