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"I would also like to tell you here that the World Bank has just formulated new Assistance Strategy for Sri Lanka in close consultation with the government ...
"We are losing billions a year," said the retired World Bank employee and new author. Berkman, 74, of Leesburg, has spent the last three years reflecting on ...
... and then clear over $3 billion of external debt by mid-2009 if upcoming IMF assessments show progress in economic reform, the World Bank said on Friday. ...
World Bank Vice President James Adams Friday visited World Bank-funded projects in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. The World Bank office in ...

Islamabad:The World Bank has categorically refused to entertain a request of the government of Pakistan (GoP) for granting it a $500 million emergency ...
By NJERI RUGENE in Accra, Ghana (email the author) The World Bank has asked the international community to urgently implement measures to contain the food ...
The World Bank said the other day that 24 per cent of all Indians in 2005 lived on an average of Rs 13.14 per day or less (taking the weighted average of ...
Belarus' foreign debt is small and will not affect the country's economic growth, Martin Raiser, head of the World Bank's office in Ukraine, ...
By ISD (Zakari Musah & Elorm Ametepe) The World Bank Managing Director, Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has cautioned Ministers of developing and donor countries ...
Colombo: The World Bank's new Vice President for South Asia, Isabel Guerrero, wrapped up her first visit to Sri Lanka with a strong re-affirmation of her ...
The World Bank chief said sharp increases in global food and fuel prices had complicated efforts to reduce poverty. "It is double jeopardy (that) fuel and ...
Senior Economist in the World Bank's Agricultural Unit, Robert Townsend, explains the problems facing West African nations, if they continue to import ...
The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on September 4 approved $35 million in additional funding to support the Household Energy and ...
APA-Conakry (Guinea) The World Bank Vice-President for the Africa region, Mrs Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, will be in Conakry from Sunday 7 to Tuesday 9 ...
The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank Board of Directors endorsed today the new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Costa Rica, which envisages a lending ...
(Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday approved a new three-year us$258 million lending program for Costa Rica to help improve education, telecoms reform, ...
WASHINGTON, September 4, 2008 - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $15 million International Development Association (IDA) credit* ...
A World Bank economist views the current political upheaval as only a short-run concern for investors, saying they should take a longer view of the ...
ActionAid has accused the US, Japan and the World Bank for blocking key demands by developing countries and campaigners to make aid work for the poor. ...
"World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Thursday called for sweeping reforms in the way international aid is managed if the current food crisis is to be ...
5 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and a group of African ministers have met in the Ghanaian capital ...
In July, the Guardian newspaper breathlessly reported that a leaked copy of a World Bank report blamed biofuels for 75% of the steep increase in food prices ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday approved a new three-year $258 million lending program for Costa Rica to help improve education, ...
FORMER Governor of Central Bank Rick Hou is yet to leave the country for his new post with the World Bank in New York. A close family member said Mr Hou is ...
"The World Bank called Sunday for an end to "restrictions on food aid", including tariffs and barriers to exports. This appeal was made before the opening ...
... financial agencies to secure financing, including 500 million dollars from the Asian Development Bank and 1 billion dollars from the World Bank. ...
... which hit a double-digit mark in July is hurting the poor and undermining efforts to reduce poverty in Nigeria, the World Bank has said. ...
DAYTON - A top executive for the World Bank will discuss how troubles in the financial markets are impacting developing countries on Sept. 23. ...
MANILA, Philippines - The World Bank is providing a $300000 grant to upgrade the skills of government procurement professionals through the Asian Institute ...
The World Bank supports the Accra Agenda for Action, and calls for bold new steps to honour the commitments made in 2005 at the Gleneagles G-8 Summit to ...
The World Bank has granted the federal government's request for an additional N6 billion loan to execute the Commercial agriculture Development Programme ...
Singapore - Pakistan's central bank said the World Bank has reaffirmed its financial support to fast-track close to $US1 billion of investments in Pakistan. ...
Sept 04, 2008 (LBO) - The World Bank will help Sri Lanka build Infrastructure and boost economic services to communities marginalized by an internal ...
... are expected to benefit from a unique agreement signed Wednesday in Dakar between the Senegalese Rural Electrification Agency (ASER) and the World Bank. ...
Spiralling food and energy prices prompted the World Bank to forecast in June that global growth would slow to 2.7pc this year from 3.7pc in 2007. ...
World Bank`s Vice President for South Asia Ms. Isabela Guerrero said at a meeting with the President Mahinda Rajapakse that was held in Temple Trees ...
Assuming an offset price of $10 per tonne, the World Bank said these projects could generate some $98 billion in revenues. This does not include money made ...
The World Bank has vowed to suspend loans to countries that violate its anti-corruption policies. In 2006, the Bank suspended several loans and blocked debt ...
... multiple crises from climate change and energy and water scarcity will soon intensify what is already a silent famine, the World Bank said on Wednesday. ...
By David Walsh The World Bank reported Tuesday that in 2005 an estimated 1.4 billion people in the so-called 'developing world,' one-fourth of its ...

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