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You were afraid that Ms. Riza would sue the World Bank if she did not get the deal that she was happy with?

Mr. Zoellick said the World Bank is working with Chinese authorities to help make structural changes.

Stan Fischer, the governor of the Bank of Israel who has worked at both the IMF and the World Bank, would be a good fit.

And I said the World Bank would be pleased to host such an ongoing meeting of the Bali group in our annual meetings and the spring meetings.

Mr Wolfowitz and his team do not seem to understand that being president of the World Bank is a privilege, not an entitlement.

Japan's growth will slow but only temporarily as a result of the earthquake and tsunami, said the World Bank in a report.

"What I want most is clean water, " he said, to a man from the World Bank interviewing him on a street in Livingston, Zambia.

The World Bank president's comments came as he prepared to embark on a week long visit to Africa, beginning on Sunday, June 12.

China's available water per capita is just a quarter of the world average and the lowest of any large economy, according to the World Bank.

Making the announcement Friday in the White House Rose Garden, President Obama said the World Bank is much more than just a bank.

So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist?

Despite the downgrade, "China is a relative bright spot in an otherwise gloomy global economy, " said the World Bank's David Dollar.

Interest in labor market issues has increased both at the World Bank and among the Bank's client countries, says Fares.

This is a big opportunity for China and a strong point of its participation in a multilateral organization like the World Bank.

S. Its GDP per head is one fourteenth of the U. S. , roughly half that of Kazakhstan, according to the World Bank.

The World Bank must be allowed to use its itself in certain aspects true importances it fund to carry on the loan to be much bigger than.

Kemal, I'm so pleased to be with you today. You're one of the heroes of the World Bank.

The World Bank will offer Egypt four and a half billion dollars in loans over the next two years.

Many believe that this has helped the city state earn the title of being the easiest place to do business, by the World Bank.

Members will be selected by the President of the World Bank in consultation with the Bank's Audit Committee.

His appointment must be confirmed by the board of the World Bank, a confirmation likely to come in the next two weeks.

In a statement, the World Bank said the issue demonstrates its interest in supporting the growth of the yuan market.

The World Bank said the money would sustain the momentum of change but only if coupled with real reform.

The World Bank study simply confirmed that this pricing deflator is valid across the entire Chinese economy.

The hotline, to which the World Bank will link from its website, is the start of a long and potentially valuable process.

The World Bank has predicted adjusting to the effects of climate change will cost up to $100 billion a year until 2050.

But critics of the World Bank say programs for the poor are often cut as a result of financial reforms required to get loans.

The World Bank's investigation focused specifically on an urban-transport project the bank financed in Moscow.

'There are signs that China is beginning to turn the corner, ' the World Bank report said.

The bank has publicized its lending guidelines, and is considering joining with the World Bank in projects in Africa.

The World Bank is an agency for channelling aid funds to poor countries for medium and long-term projects. The Bank raises . . .

She said she had spoken with UNITAID, GAVI the World Bank and foundations to continue work on funding.

The World Bank Group will be there to help countries end poverty and boost shared prosperity in at least four ways.

In this year's Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank explores possible scenarios for the next 25 years of globalisation.

The World Bank and Goldman Sachs have said China could move ahead of the United States into the number one spot within the next 20 years.

What's more, Simpson said, the World Bank evaluation clearly outlined the benefits of the preschool program.

The World Bank's Mr. Dollar says that China does offer sound lessons for other countries trying to escape poverty.

The World Bank tries to lead the economies of these countries like a grand dictator making all the errors which we've all come to know.

The World Bank stands ready to support the Chilean government in any way it may find useful.

The World Bank said in March it had offered Tanzania an alternative to stop the Serengeti road project.

Aside from crisis response, I was also pleased to hear the endorsement of shareholders for two long-term priorities of the World Bank Group.

There is now a global consensus that Mr Wolfowitz will have to leave the World Bank.

The World Bank's center for arbitration may be able to resolve difficulties encountered by business in a foreign country.

One reason is that the US has not yet given up on the old bargain, which gives it a permanent lock on the presidency of the World Bank.

As the World Bank says, climate-change policy is no longer a simple choice between growth and ecological well-being.

According to the World Bank, the dollar value of trade is about a third lower than it was a year ago.

The relationship between the World Bank and China has grown into a mature and significant partnership for development.

BNDES's rate of new lending now far exceeds that of the World Bank.

The World Bank stands ready to provide assistance to these efforts.

China will no longer depend so much on trade surplus to support its economic growth, according to a report by the World Bank.

Wolfowitz said he was determined that the World Bank be an active partner in that effort.

The World Bank Group will be proud to work with you and to support your endeavors.

Two years into the round, as trade ministers gathered for a summit in Mexico, the World Bank was pushing another extravagant simulation.

The United Nations system, including the World Bank, could help as well under the direction of Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general designate.

The World Bank has been trying to find ways to co-operate with Beijing to avoid escalating competition over loan deals.

The World Bank estimates that Asia will spend at least $1, 000bn on such projects over the next five years.

Ms. Ezekwesili requested the delegation to provide the World Bank with a list of Pygmy groups to be invited to the meeting.

Our Jakarta office, as I think I have said already, is one of the leaders in the World Bank Group in this effort, and I thank them.

China needs to spend up to $20 billion a year to bring its urban water supplies up to standard, according to the World Bank.

The summit meeting is an outgrowth of the Global Tiger Initiative, introduced two years ago by the World Bank president, Robert B. Zoellick.

But elsewhere, and especially in the countries where the World Bank and the I. M. F. held sway, things did not go well.

The World Bank and the I. M. F. said they were doing all this for the benefit of the developing world.

The World Bank says dealing with climate change will require hundreds of billions a year in public and private financing.

"The World Bank was told that it could not publish this information, " an unnamed advisor to the bank told the FT.

The World Bank plans to stay in Aceh beyond the immediate reconstruction to help find solutions to foster long-term sustainable development.

This needs to be significantly increased across the board consistent with the World Bank's recent decision to quadruple its lending.

The grand total of outside forest assistance, including the World Bank's, is only US$1. 7 billion, he said.

The World Bank president said the rest of 2009 could economically be good and "may even beat expectations" .

The biggest financial institutes like the World Bank . . . say that biodiversity is non-renewable biomass.

Among the countries enacting reforms to make doing business easier, Egypt ranked at the top of the World Bank's list.

The World Bank Group's Vendor Kiosk lists bidding opportunities for the Bank's internal operations.

"Wherever she has worked, she has had a strong voice and impact, " Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, observed earlier this year.

Time permitting, I shall say a bit about the World Bank's response to the crisis.

The country is a close friend and important partner of the World Bank and we are ready to support its recovery and reconstruction.

Over the years, the World Bank has been a research leader in measuring poverty and inequality.

The IMF and the World Bank grew out of an international conference held in the United States in nineteen forty-four.

Last week he reaped the rewards of that tenacity when he was made US nominee to become the 11th president of the World Bank.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome all of you to this conference on behalf of the World Bank.

Many countries are subsidizing the price of food, and the World Bank has called for targeted subsidies to help the poor.

Rich-nation taxpayers who care about the world's poor ought to ask if they still get their money's worth from the World Bank.

The World Bank continues to build on a strong history of engagement in the roads sector and is increasingly engaging in urban transport.

The UK was the only country in the top 10 to gain in the World Bank survey, exchanging its sixth place for Denmark's fifth.

Service and support fee [IFC] Fee paid by IFC to the World Bank for the services it receives from the Bank.

"The World Bank has been trying to lean forward and fast-track resources to these countries, " says van Trotsenburg.

We have also decided we want to see a greater role for the World Bank in helping the poorest countries of the world.

Very importantly, ministers called for a "strong" replenishment of IDA, the World Bank's fund for the poorest 79 countries in the world.

Such remittances are important, says Dilip Ratha of the World Bank, but it is not enough to tap the income of migrants abroad.

White House officials say the heads of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank are also invited.

The World Bank will function as a trustee for the fund, but in a way as yet to be fully defined.

"We're extremely grateful for the prompt response by the World Bank -- such promptness is always very, very appreciated, " said Carstens.

The reason was that the members of the World Bank thought that foreign bribery was okay, including Germany.

Austria is leading a campaign for a region-wide support package that would be financed with help from the IMF, the World Bank and the EBRD.

WHO regions kept on fighting in countries, but there was no support from the World Bank and the IMF.

THIRTY years ago China's leaders used to call the World Bank a tool of imperialism.

Every year since 2003 the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank) has compiled a report on red tape around the world.

The name game has now become a free-for-all, in which the World Bank continues to hold grandmaster status.

However, Louis Kuijs, senior economist at the World Bank in Beijing, isn't sure China has reached such a point yet.

A second FAILFaire took place in July in Washington. The World Bank Institute co-sponsored the event.

Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, is devoting special efforts during his presidency there to a drive against corruption.

The World Bank provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance to help its developing-country members achieve these objectives.

AFTER the G20 met in London on April 2nd, Robert Zoellick, the World Bank's president, described the summit as "a promising beginning" .

Both are both based in Washington. The World Bank has traditionally been led by an American and the IMF by a European.

She said she hopes the World Bank's new open data policy will lead to more frequently updated poverty data and increased innovation.

China is also one of the biggest borrowers from the World Bank, taking out about $1. 5 billion a year.

The other major change goes to the heart of the World Bank's business: development research.

The World Bank also blames the food price increases on more expensive energy and fertilizer, as well as export bans and a weak dollar.

'Water prices need to be allowed to rise to reflect its full scarcity value, ' recommended the World Bank study.

The World Bank, by contrast, says such a relationship is "a de facto conflict of interest. "

Yiwu market is called the "world's biggest wholesale market of commodities" by the United Nations, the World Bank and Morgan Stanley.

The World Bank tried to put together a global set of statistics for the year 2005.

If the Board is to decide to remove you, what would be your assessment of this episode in your tenure at the World Bank?

As a member of the Core Group, the World Bank will continue to support Lebanon 's reconstruction and its sustained development.

But, this is, of course, my first visit as the head of the World Bank, and I am really delighted to be here.

The World Bank, the United Nations and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine did a study to urge hand washing around the world.

The key objective of the World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy for Croatia is to support the completion of its EU accession process.

The World Bank head said people at the bottom of the economic ladder continue to suffer the worst.

I welcome the decision of the Board to appoint Paul Wolfowitz as the next President of the World Bank Group.

It's a great pleasure to welcome you back to the World Bank for this second meeting of the International Corruption Hunters Alliance.

Much larger protests had been planned for this weekend to oppose policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Wolfowitz says the World Bank wants to be helpful and will not bog down the process by insisting on being the lead agency.

It has been the big winner in the World Bank's recent business rankings, shooting up to 58th place from 143rd in the past two years.

We at the World Bank are very proud to be partners of Turkey in its economic development efforts.

For just sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank estimates the off-grid electricity market at $17 billion a year.

Back in 2007, the World Bank estimated the total cost of China's air and water pollution was 5. 8% of gross domestic product.

On Friday, the World Bank president leaves China for the G-20 finance ministers meeting in London.

Spence: One of my friends went with Robert McNamara to China. McNamara was then head of the World Bank.

As the World Bank puts it, the region, which prospered through exporting, is now suffering for the same reason.

The World Bank is mobilizing significant financial assistance and sending a team to help assess damage and reconstruction needs.

Directors of the World Bank have announced that the organization's President Paul Wolfowitz is to resign at the end of June.

Instead, existing global agencies like the IMF, the UN, the World Bank, the BIS etc. will either be abolished or revamped.

The World Bank Group advocates catastrophe risk financing as an important element of the strategic framework for disaster risk management.

Right now, fewer than 20 wind farms (including one financed by the World Bank) produce about 452 megawatts of electricity a year.

Governments and major lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund turned to free market policies.

The World Bank estimates that China will , in the twenty - first century, become one of the largest economic entities in the world .

In dollar terms, the World Bank forecasts that China will add almost as much to its reserves in 2009 than in 2008.

The members of the World Bank hope they will be paid back in full by nations that have used their loans to strengthen weak economies.

Since the World Bank's studies began, businesspeople globally have experienced a slight loosening of the red tape.

The World Bank's authors think only a third of remittances go on education, savings and business investment.

Dasgupta is now urging nations and the World Bank to monitor another measure that he and others have been refining in recent years.

The World Bank has estimated that the sudden increase in food prices in 2008 drove at least 100 million people into poverty worldwide.

The World Bank has used performance assessments of governments as a basis for allocating concessional resources since the mid-1970s.

I began my talk by saying that I was proud to be here today to represent the World Bank's decade-long support to the China Mining Congress.

When the World Bank even threatened to sue Dr Rosling if he shared their data on global development, he decided to take action.

Robert Holzmann of the World Bank thinks people should be allowed to borrow from such accounts while unemployed.

The British leader wants the World Bank to create a multi-billion dollar fund to tackle climate change and finance low-carbon investment.

By offering a more clearly differentiated range of products, the World Bank could improve the quality of its services to MICs.

All of these improvements, and others like them, have been funded with grants from the World Bank in schools across Kosovo.

'It was a beautiful coincidence, ' says John Scales, a transport specialist at the World Bank's Beijing office.

The United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the G-20 were all initiated in the West.

The World Bank gives Egypt high marks for its efforts to move from a centrally planned to a more market-oriented economy.

Created in 1944 and, by custom, headed by an American, the World Bank initially helped finance the reconstruction of war-torn Europe.

The sovereign and pension funds wanting to invest with the World Bank Group in Africa represent a new form of financial intermediation.

Its project financing is more than double that of the World Bank.

Zoellick pointed to the World Bank's Global Tiger initiative as an innovation in conservation that could have wider lessons.

China can share its experience with other countries through institutions like the World Bank.

Zoellick said the World Bank has over $40 billion in capital and stands ready to double lendingfor developing countries if needed.

As chief economist at the World Bank, he openly criticized its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the U.

He has also been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Stunting is not genetic: a study by the World Bank found that Mayans in southern Mexico are taller than those over the border.

Most of the restitution has been monitored by the World Bank, to make sure the money goes to national funds and not into people's pockets.

The World Bank yesterday unveiled a $1. 2bn fast-track funding facility to help combat the impact of rising food prices on the poor.

To Katrin Verclas, it was a good sign to have the World Bank support such open discussions about failure.

That makes for better performance, it makes for a more open system, it makes for people having a different attitude about the World Bank.

The annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund over the weekend brought together frightened and angry people.

The IMF and the World Bank grew out of an international conference held in the United States in 1944.

As the digits tick up toward one billion, the World Bank is calling on policymakers to put food first.

For its part, Washington, should resist the temptation to secure Europe's support for a US head of the World Bank in the usual stitch-up.

"We're beginning to monetize the World Bank's good works, " says Lay.

Analysis of financial role in promoting cooperation between China and the World Bank, summed up the experience of knowledge cooperation.

A report by the World Bank says the Palestinian economy will not grow this year, despite billions of dollars in international aid.

The World Bank's poverty figures bring this point out clearly.

The United States traditionally chooses the World Bank head and Europe chooses the IMF chief. But developing nations want more influence.

The World Bank and IMF are additional important tools for building a stable world economy and a prosperous global community.

All told, the World Bank put the price tag for China's air and water pollution at $100 billion a year, or about 5. 8% of GDP.

I believe in these priorities not just for Indonesia, but as key principles for the World Bank Group's relations with all of our partners.

"I'm a bit more optimistic, " says Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist in the World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean region.

In a paper published by the World Bank, Daniel Kaufmann and Shang-Jin Wei subjected the "efficient grease" hypothesis to careful scrutiny.

Later in the week - the World Bank addresses one of the biggest challenges to global growth - unemployment.

My hands-down pick for best rumor of the week goes to the story that Hillary Clinton would like to be next president of the World Bank.

However, America joined Britain and France to give the World Bank's request for a capital increase a distinctly lukewarm reception.

The World Bank has a ranking of countries measured by the "ease of doing business, " and the U. S. is No. 4.

The World Bank Group's country strategy for Indonesia is in many ways leading the World Bank as a whole.

Only after the World Bank threatened to suspend its whole Cambodia programme did the government pay back money the bank had shelled out.

But the residents here may be paying a very high price - breathing what the World Bank says is some of the worst air on the planet.

The World Bank's "Doing Business" trading and "Logistics" indicators have done the diagnostic groundwork.

Bad management and overfishing waste $50 billion a year, says the World Bank.

The World Bank has suspended aid; having initially said they would not, American officials mulled doing the same.

By the United Nations, the World Bank and other international authoritative institutions identified as the world's largest market.

The World Bank works all over the world to lower international trade barriers.

Citi and the IFC are launching the partnership as part of a $50bn global trade finance initiative announced by the World Bank in April.

The US is yet to make its position clear and a factor will be whether it fights to maintain the status quo at the World Bank and the IMF.

Another study, by the World Bank, has estimated that such a pandemic could leave perhaps 70m dead.

George Clooney met with the U. N. Security Council several years ago to discuss Darfur. Now, the World Bank is sprinkling the stardust.

In the absence of a bailout from the World Bank, the country will have to overhaul its economy and trim its budget.

The World Bank even forecasts that China will become one of the strong economic powers in the world by the year 2020.

Earlier in the week, the head of the World Bank said international support can speed progress -- "but only if coupled with real reform. "

The World Bank also promised at least one billion dollars for Tunisia.

Japan has had the world's second-largest economy for much of the last four decades, according to the World Bank.

In the establishment of convenience, the World Bank to the United Kingdom as the first in Europe, the world's sixth.

All the business activities of the World Bank are subject to this rule without any exception.

The World Bank and IMF continue to push for stable financial systems and market-based reforms around the world.

China's rural areas have been plagued by poor access to care, the World Bank said in a recent report on China's health-care system.

The US and other countries want the World Bank to control money raise to help poorer countries deal with climate change.

Wipro is one of three Indian IT outsourcing companies affected by the World Bank ban, imposed in June 2007 for four years.

All in all, dealing with crime and violence costs Central America around 8% of its GDP, according to a report this month by the World Bank.

Research conducted by the World Bank shows the more unequal gender relationships are in a country, the higher its HIV prevalence rate.

At the summit, the World Bank will announce two programs using financing from its fund for the poorest countries.

In January of 1991, Summers became the chief economist at the World Bank, and that spring he recruited Sandberg as a research assistant.

How will the rest of the $205 million from the World Bank help Mexico respond to this outbreak and enhance pandemic preparedness?

As a result, the great majority of World Bank policy and project documents are available to the public through the World Bank website.

If so, the estimate of the IMF about the GDP for Zaire were only 60 per cent of those of its sister institution, the World Bank.

In the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank - promoting economic reform and ending poverty around the globe.

Indeed, climate change will be a key topic at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this month.

The Popular Choice Award will be determined by public vote and the winner will receive a cash award and a feature on the World Bank website.

The World Bank looked into financing such a highway around 20 years ago and rejected it, partly for environmental reasons.

The World Bank says prices are not quite back at those levels - just 3% below - although they are 27% higher than a year ago.

according to the World Bank, a mere 14% of offloaded public-sector outfits have ended up in private hands.

Efforts have been made to get the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development involved.

It was authored by a global team of agricultural experts, led by Uma Lele, a former senior advisor at the World Bank.

Frame agreement [IBRD] An agreement between the World Bank and a member country on cofinancing.

The World Bank also said more sophisticated domestic production was allowing China to source more of its input needs internally.

Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, suggested this week that change may be needed sooner rather than later.

If confirmed by the World Bank's board, Mr Zoellick would replace Paul Wolfowitz who steps down on June 30.

We at the World Bank Group are very proud of our experience and our ability to meet those needs.

China has reduced its poor population by 500 million over the last thirty years by the World Bank standard.

The World Bank proposed the establishment of a high-level reform commission to push through the proposals.

Membership of the World Bank is conditional upon IMF membership. at 30 June 1986 it had 150 member country shareholders.

It is sponsored by the World Bank and its partners as part of a Foundation.

The World Bank consistently ranks Cambodia in the bottom 10% of all countries for controlling corruption.

Interestingly, this is done directly, over the head of such institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The World Bank Group, especially through the IFC, can help connect long-term global liquidity with the African investment opportunity.

The World Bank promoted the contest partly to remind its own employees that the old barriers are coming down.

Europe likes the tradition that a European runs the IMF, just as an American runs the World Bank.

What is the World Bank doing to help countries strengthen their health systems and develop pandemic preparedness plans?

The program in Croatia is part of the World Bank's broader strategy to tackle the unique challenges faced by Middle Income Countries (MICs).

The World Bank and many rich countries have doubled the money they put into poor countries' farming.

Same as the World Bank, International Financial Corporation are reluctant to admit lending default or investment failure.

The International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank, postponed a meeting to discuss special economic zones.

Perhaps the bright side is that the World Bank isn't making any loans to Greece or any other place that looks certain to blow up soon.

The World Bank Group must also adapt more quickly to meet new needs of its clients and interests of its shareholders.

Then, in 1991, with India running out of foreign exchange, the World Bank forced it to abandon its controlled economy.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati is Managing Director of the World Bank Group and a former finance minister of Indonesia.

The encouraging trend is shown in the World Bank Africa Development Indicators 2007 (ADI) released today.

The World Bank is calling for greater international policy co-ordination and tighter regulation of the global financial system in response.

In what for the World Bank is unusually strong language, the report lambasts national authorities for failing to take the issue seriously.

But service costs dropped after reforms supported by the World Bank opened the market to competition, and access has increased dramatically.

When the World Bank Group stepped up to confront dangers, we depended on the effective and efficient use of resources on hand.

Principles for graduation could be established along the lines used at the World Bank.

This experimental approach is the focus of a new report entitled China and the World Bank: A Partnership for Innovation.

The World Bank Treasury supports innovative financing flows for climate-smart investment through the funds it raises in the capital markets.