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World Bank, IMF Meeting Focuses on Slow Growth, Reforms
Unit 62 World Bank The World Bank is one of the major channels through which development aid is passed from the Industrial West to the poor and developing nations. In the last decade, important changes have taken place in the size of the Bank's opera
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Barry Wood Washington 27 April 2006 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee Thursday that economic data will be particularly important in guiding centr
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 28 March 2007 Israeli police have removed about 400 Jewish settlers from a former West Bank settlement. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, the settlement had been abandoned nearly two years ago as part of the Gaza disen
Israel is pressing ahead with plans to build more settlement housing in the West Bank. An Israeli official announced the scheme as a meeting was getting under way in Washington between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today, defense lawyers get their opportunity in the trial of Paul Manafort. President Trump's former campaign chairman is on trial for bank and tax fraud, and prosecutors finished their case yesterday as NPR justice reporter Ryan
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
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
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 04 September 2006 Israel's government says it intends to build 690 new homes in two West Bank settlements. Palestinian officials say the plan is a violation of the U.S.-backed road map peace plan. ----- The settlement constru
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
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