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The price of tea in UK supermarkets increased by 15% after droughts in India and Kenya. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Sunday, November 08, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is all set to move the World Bank (WB) for appointment of a neutral expert instead of opting for the Court of Arbitration on the Indian Kishanganga Hydropower Project. Full Article at The News
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Managing Director of The World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addresses the audience during her speech during the Emerging Markets Summit, a two-day conference in London, on September 17, 2009. View Photo »
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should dare to imagine an African world not defined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund but one that comes out of Africa
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Sunday, November 08, 2009 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: By pointing out financial difficulties being faced by Balochistan, the World Bank (WB) has recommended to the province to replace expensive cash development loan with relatively... Full Article at The News
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DOHA (Reuters) - Corruption costs developing nations $20 to $40 billion each year, while emerging markets and financial centers are increasingly havens for stolen assets, a top World Bank official said Saturday. Full Article at Reuters
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank, has listed a US$100 million (Dh367.3m) Islamic bond in Dubai and Bahrain. Full Article at The National Newspaper
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The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick (R) and Australia's Treasury Minister, Wayne Swan, arrive for the dinner of the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting at the Guildhall in the City of London, September 4, 2009. View Photo »
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The World Bank acts in conjunction with and in support to the European Commission, France and the African Development Bank, which reflects the high degree of collaboration between these institutions
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07 November 2009 On 4 November, 2009 the International Finance CorporationInternational Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank listed an Islamic bond, a Sukuk on the DIFCDIFC's international exchange, Nasdaq-Dubai. Full Article at Zawya.com
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The big news of the day is a report from the Czech media that President Vaclav Klaus is considering pulling out of the EU in order preserve Czech sovereignty when the Lisbon Treaty takes effect. More power to him! Full Article at Gates of Vienna
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World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) and Bank of Israel President Stanley Fischer enter the morning session of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming August 22, 2009.
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Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank, left, and Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, arrive at the morning session of the annual conference of the Federal Reserve in Jackson, Wyo. , Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009.
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World Bank President, Robert B. Zoellick, right, and Uganda's Minister for Works and Transport Engineer John Nasasira, left, tour Malaba Customs, near Kenya boarder Thursday Aug. 13, 2009.
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Palestinian prime minster Salam Fayyad (R) sits with World Bank representative Dina Abu Ghaida in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 14, 2009. The World Bank granted USD 33, 5 million to the Palestinian Authority for projects being developed in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.
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World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) speaks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy after a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) and participating African countries during the G8 summit in L'Aquila, in central Italy, on July 10, 2009.
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Simeon Djankov, a World Bank economist tipped to become Bulgaria's finance minister, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Sofia July 8, 2009.
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World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L), Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco (C) and his Jamaican counterpart Audley Shaw chat after a group photo during the Second Meeting of Finance Minister of the Americas and the Caribbean at Vina del Mar city July 3, 2009.
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should dare to imagine an African world not defined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund but one that comes out of Africa
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The World Bank acts in conjunction with and in support to the European Commission, France and the African Development Bank, which reflects the high degree of collaboration between these institutions
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DIFC is delighted that the IFC and World Bank Group selected Nasdaq Dubai as the primary listing venue for its first sukuk issue. As the first non-Islamic financial institution to issue a sukuk for term funding in the GCC, this truly is a ground breaking transaction and clearly demonstrates the growing ...
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The British diplomat reviewed Iraq's excellent relations with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, mainly in training the Iraqi cadres
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The launch of the IFC's and the World Bank's first Sukuk and its listing on Nasdaq Dubai are a significant step in the continuing integration of Islamic finance into the global financial system. We are delighted to support the Sukuk as its primary listing venue, providing a regulatory structure that pro...
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The establishment of the joint ADB/World Bank offices in Tonga and now Samoa is a practical expression of our determination to deliver on commitments made under the Paris Declaration
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The new office in Apia demonstrates the World Bank’s long-term commitment to its activities and programmes in Samoa
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It is very exciting that Nepal is taking a lead role in raising awareness on the impact of climate change in the Himalayas and the World Bank will support it
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Abia has already satisfied the Federal Government and World Bank and is now ready to start Fadama III
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Given the dual nature of the unwritten agreement that reserves the IMF Managing Director position to a European national, it is important that the leadership selection process in both institutions (World Bank and IMF) be reformed in parallel, facilitating the political bargain that will surely be requir...
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Kids who watch TV out of school, according to a World Bank survey of young people in the shanty towns of Fortaleza in Brazil, are considerably less likely to consume drugs.
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This Act prescribes that the Minister of Finance is a governor of Zimbabwe's fiscal agent to both the World Bank family and the IMF
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I specifically want to refer to the reform of the United Nations as well as international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which still marginalise our continent in decision making
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We at the IMF expect, along with the World Bank, believe that with continued strong performance debt relief [for Liberia] will be finalized in 2010 following progress in implementing the new public financial management act, and a number of other actions
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We believe next year we will do even more. The Arab OPEC fund has approved US$10m; the World Bank has released $20m while the Dutch have released $10m
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and even the major heads of the World Bank and the IMF, whose predecessor executives are guilty of financing World War II, recently acknowledged that there is room for more than one global currency . Our mission is to make the penny, not the dollar, the standard medium of exchange around the world.
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Speedy shift in International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota share of at least 5% to emerging markets and developing countries, and a significant increase of at least 3% of voting power in the World Bank for developing and transition countries, while avoiding erosion in voting shares of developing countries
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That is one testament that the voices of emerging and low-income countries will be increasingly strengthened ... The IMF and the World Bank to some extent are trying to represent the views of low-income countries through our universal membership.
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What we present during budget session is an aggregate of views from various players. We analyse the views, working together with multi-sectoral partners such as the IMF and World Bank. But remember that in the end, we have to take a position as government in accordance with the agenda for development an...
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When I was working in the provincial department of water resources, I was involved in the World Bank-supported China Qinba mountains poverty reduction project in Ningxia, which aimed to provide safe drinking water to the poor in the region
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In exchange for loans, those institutions have been able to enforce their policies of privatization, deregulation and fiscal discipline ... When I was in Canada we were talking about the struggle against privatization, which is a major struggle facing the public sector unions in Canada, and Canadians in...
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from a particular lobby that sees African values on the family to be a danger to what’s called the ’new global ethic,’ which is being propounded by the UN, by the World Bank, by the IMF, and even by the European Union.
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Talks were held with representatives of Belarus and the World Bank, during which the conditions of the loan were agreed
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One of the priorities of our parliament this year is to continue providing legislative support to the nationwide campaign to ease doing business in Rwanda. Several international organizations have already taken note of our progress. The World Bank recently ranked Rwanda as the best reformer in the year ...
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Last year, the country was named the 'easiest place to open a new business' in West Africa by the World Bank
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