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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.

World Bank research shows that the marginal productivity of infrastructure in most emerging markets exceeds that of other physical capital.

Purpose of World Bank It is robbing poor countries of their important public resources in the name of offering loans. I feel sorry for that.

IMF, World Bank and African Development Bank officials seem to have been caught off guard by the scale and timing of China's plans.

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

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

Lin brought only two suitcases with him to his World Bank job, leaving the furniture in Beijing.

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.

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.

Their gathering serves as a prelude to the two-day spring meeting of the IMF and World Bank, which begins the next day.

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

Mr Brown's call will be well received at the impending annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, as it was no doubt intended to be.

World Bank financing has been used to complement bilateral assistance, which is often in the form of in-kind aid.

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

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.

As an old friend of China and World Bank President now, what do you think of China's economy as a whole?

This was only the beginning of the first visit by a World Bank President to this Nigerian State.

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

The scenarios are all laid out in a new World Bank report, Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization.

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.

The U. S. Treasury chose World Bank economist David Dollar as economic emissary to China despite sharp criticism of his economic research.

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

The global recovery, exchange rate issues and a new economic order are expected to be at the center of IMF and World Bank discussions.

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

World Bank president Zoellick wants some of that oil wealth to be invested in Africa.

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

Just a decade ago, Asia, Latin America and Russia were on financial life support from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

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.

This privacy policy applies to all World Bank sites - that is all sites within the "worldbank. org" domain name.

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

During his visit to Rwanda, World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz will meet Gakuba to hear her experiences as an entrepreneur in Rwanda.

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.

World Bank senior education specialist on gender, Mercy Tembon, says the stipends have had an impact on girls' education.

World Bank launches new education strategy for the next decade, with a focus on preparing youth for the jobs market.

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.

PICs are located adjacent to World Bank offices or in universities or other accessible sites, usually in capital cities around the world.

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.

He is a former IMF and World Bank official and investment banker who has spent much of his life in the United States.

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

This conference is part of a World Bank technical assistance project funded partially by the European Union, which we greatly appreciate.

But the comprehensive settlement means the company won't face any additional World Bank sanctions involving subsidiaries in other countries.

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.

Please note that World Bank documents related to a specific country are available free of charge to citizens of that country.

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.

Botswana, Ghana and Kenya have been shouldering the burden since World Bank loans dried up in the 1990s.

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.

But a new World Bank report says the region's less-than-abundant water supply need not spell widespread hardship in future.

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.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, says the stakes for the poor and for the world economy are too big to allow the Doha Round to fail.

At some point, Beijing will likely insist that the head of the International Monetary Fund or World Bank be a Chinese.

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

World Bank recommendations in this collection to the public, will help the next few years to further improve the area.

World Bank studies have found that tens of millions more can be lifted out of poverty through increased trade.

But we do know, from a recent World Bank estimate, that the global economic costs of the next influenza pandemic could reach US$ 3 trillion.

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.

A recent World Bank study noted that "China has gone from being an overachiever to being an underachiever" in terms of health improvements.

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

World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, talking in Istanbul, said it planned to lend more than $40bn over the next year.

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" .

A pair of World Bank economists, Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer, examined the quality of public and private healthcare in Delhi.

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.

Economics: The U. S. Department of the Treasury is facilitating Iraq's engagement with the IMF and World Bank.

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

World Bank-funded study released early this year predicted the Amazon could become a grassy savannah by the end of the century.

In a speech today, World Bank President Robert Zoellick highlighted gender equality as a key, cross-cutting development goal.

'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?

"Two years ago we were cautious about even providing an API to outside audiences, " says World Bank Web Program Lead Nicole Frost.

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.

Canada was a pioneer of the joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank financial sector assessment programme.

World Bank's research on the global banking industry shows that The credit risk of commercial banks are the main reason for bankruptcy .

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.

Delfin Go was the expert conducting a World Bank field survey back in 1995 in Livingston.

On a separate issue, China last week denied a newspaper story about a World Bank report on the cost of pollution in that country.

"This strategy is designed to help Pakistan prosper, " says John Wall, World Bank Country Director for Pakistan.

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.

He is not the first World Bank leader to struggle to match its practices to its principles.

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.

World Bank warns that in many countries to the AIDS patients and HIV carriers in the provision of treatment drugs may have been difficult.

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

World Bank President Robert Zoellick say Europe will have to find answers to its debt problems.

World Bank chief Robert Zoellick was keen to dispel any sense of euphoria about the much talked-about world economic recovery.

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.

We want to discuss the terms of the contract as our company is to be granted a World Bank credit soon .

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.

Its report is expected by the time of the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank in October.

Speaking at the high-level event, World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick advocated for an integrated approach to the problem.

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 .

The Europeans and Americans were held by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank president, the 'understanding' should be ended.

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.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick states that globalization must be "inclusive and sustainable" and help the most vulnerable.

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.

"We want to see poachers behind bars, not tigers, " says World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

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.

According to a 2009 World Bank report, Israelisuse four times as much water per capita as Palestinians, much of it foragriculture.

World Bank Country Director for Mozambique Michael Baxter described IDA as a "linchpin" in development assistance to Mozambique.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick says China is pleased with its recovery, but leaders recognize there are still large uncertainties.

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

The government fell on its sword, accepted culpability and went cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

It is, in the words of a former World Bank president, a "model of effective social policy" and has been exported round the world.

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

And it is unclear whether lenders such as the IMF, World Bank or Asian Development Bank are ready to move into Myanmar.

Finally, the father had found world bank president, said, I give you to recommend a vice president.

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.

Mr Rogoff echoed calls from Robert Zoellick, World Bank president, for the EU to take a leading role in rescuing eastern Europe.

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.

World Bank President, heads of state to discuss strategy to save endangered tigers at International Tiger Conservation Forum next week.

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

Final agreements on World Bank and IMF representation might have wait until 2011, when the G-20 initially pledged reforms. Mr.

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.

The rest of the world's finance ministers and central bankers join them this weekend for the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

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.

World Bank findings indicate that about one-third of the state-controlled sector's recent investments generated zero or negative returns.

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.

Take a look at this rendering of Italian GDP over time, courtesy of Google's visualization of World Bank data.

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.

China is probably the most egregious example of a country that should long since have graduated from World Bank borrowing.

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

To these ends, World Bank staff have already begun to work with their Lebanese counterparts to address emergency needs.

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.