World Bank Praises Burundis Regulatory Reforms The survey evaluates governments according to their ability to ease stumbling blocks in creating and operating businesses. Among the hurdles are dealing with construction permits, registering property, g

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691. Is this the right place to open up an account ? 是在这里开户吗? 692. I need to start a bank account. 我需要开户。 693. Will this be a checking or savings account? 这是支票账户,还是储蓄账户? 694. Im told that I have insufficient funds. 我被告

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World Bank, IMF Meeting Focuses on Slow Growth, Reforms

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By Daniel Schearf Singapore 18 September 2006 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund open their annual meetings in Singapore Tuesday. At the top of the agenda for two days of talks among the world's finance ministers are debt relief and

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 September 2007 This week, the World Bank is launching an unusual initiative to get Africans living in Europe to invest back home - through a competition, complete with cash prizes, for the best development projects targeting s

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 29 May 2006 The World Bank is questioning the value of large-scale power-generation projects of the type it has funded in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Paul Wolfowitz World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is pre

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 February 2007 A major Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Nablus is in its second day. One armed Palestinian has been killed. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel describes the operation as a co

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 19 December 2006 A bank electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index, 19 Dec 2006 Thailand's stock market fell more than 12 percent (update with closing) after the central bank imposed controls on the flow of foreign c

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By David McAlary Washington 30 October 2006 The World Bank says rapidly diminishing tropical forests could be saved if farmers and loggers were paid not to cut the trees. It proposes to extend the current international system of carbon trading for t

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By Barry Wood Washington 26 July 2006 The World Bank, based in Washington and owned by its 184 member governments, spends about $20 billion a year to promote economic development in poor countries. The Bank in recent years has stepped up its efforts

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By Daniel Schearf Singapore 20 September 2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz speaks during annual meetings in Singapore The annual meeting of the World Bank andInternational Monetary Fund has ended after two days of discussions in Singapore, wi

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Saying the economy is continuing to weaken, the U.S. central bank Tuesday cut short-term interest rates to nearly zero. Officers of the U.S. Federal Reserve stand watch in front of the Fed building in Washington, D.C., 29 Oct 2008 The Federal Reserv

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Thailand's central bank hopes to help the country's beleaguered exporters by allowing more investment overseas part of a strategy to cheapen the Thai baht. Thailand market analysts doubt the plan will offer much respite from the global economic slum

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 June 2007 The human rights group Amnesty International has called for the dismantling of the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank. The London-based group says the barrier has had a disastrous impact on the lives of Pal

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By Ivana Kuhar and George Dwyer Washington, DC 07 February 2006 watch World Bank report World Bank report A new report by the World Bank says most post-communist European countries are now better inte

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By Scott Stearns White House 13 April 2007 President Bush is backing the embattled head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, who is under pressure to resign for increasing the salary of a former employee who was his girlfriend. VOA White House Correspo

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Britain's Treasury Secretary has ordered an independent review into the bonus structure of British banks that are being propped up by the British taxpayer. Media reports here indicate that The Royal Bank of Scotland may be considering bonus payments

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Israeli forces on the occupied West Bank raided the Nablus city hall, Wednesday, in the latest move in a wide-ranging crackdown against the Islamist Hamas movement in cities across the West Bank. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem Burea

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By Dorian Jones Istanbul 02 October 2009 Officials from the World Bank and IMF are meeting in Turkey, for talks dominated by the world economic crisis and the fragile recovery that is now underway in some countries. The head of the World Bank is giv

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By Barry Wood Washington 10 July 2007 The World Bank, in a report released Tuesday, says some African countries have made significant improvements in the way they govern themselves. But the survey, covering 200 rich and poor countries, says progress

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