Will Next World Bank President Be An American? Wagers for World Bank president This online betting web site in Ireland, called Paddy Power is taking wagers and setting odds on who will become World Bank president. Early in the process, the betting fa

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(二月)

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Bank says most developing countries have made important progress toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Last week the international lender released its yearly World Devel

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IN THE NEWS – September 28, 2002: IMF-World Bank Meetings Protest By Caty Weaver (VOA Photo - R. Daguillard) This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. The International

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - World Bank Offers Money for Development Ideas By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, October 10, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Bank is o

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - World Bank and I.M.F. Approve Debt Relief for Poor Nations By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, October 03, 2005 I'm Jim Tedder with the VOA Special English Development Report. IMF Man

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World Bank Downgrades Global Growth Forecast The world's economy is expected to grow more slowly this year. Hans Timmer, head of development projects at the World Bank, projects overall growth in 2012 at around 2.5 percent - more than a full percenta

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Nigerian Minister Vies for Top World Bank Job Nigeria's candidate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has long experience at the top levels of the World Bank, where she deals with national leaders and urges action to fight poverty. This is a challenge for the world,

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American Wins Top World Bank Job - Again Kim obviously is a man of many talents. Before his nomination to be president of the World Bank, he was president of Dartmouth College... Where he played a comic role in a student musical. More seriously, Kim

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Colombian Competes for World Bank Presidency International experience Jose Antonio Ocampo won praise as the head of Colombias Ministries of Finance, and Agriculture and as chief of its central bank, for boosting economic growth and investment. Ocampo

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American Seeks World Bank's Top Job They have more than doubled the number of people on treatment in the last 18 months, said Kim. This is movement in the area of HIV/AIDS the like of which weve never seen before. Over the course of his career, Jim Y

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World Bank Searches for New Leadership Nominations to replace Robert Zoellick, the latest in a long line of Americans to head the World Bank, are not being made public until top bank officials cut the list down to only three names. That will probably

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New World Bank Chief to Face Many Challenges President Obama has nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to be the next World Bank president. Since 1944, an American citizen has always led the institution. But with the growing strength of

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An unidentified resident stands in front of a poor apartment in Lagos, Nigeria Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. The International Day of the Eradication of Poverty is marked worlwide Tuesday with the aim of eradicating absolute poverty and reducing overall po

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World Bank Discusses High Food Prices Global food prices have risen by 36 percent in the past year, according to figures released this week by the World Bank. The Bank hosted its spring meetings in Washington this week, where it called on policymaker

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Top international economic leaders said continuing disputes over currencies and trade could escalate and hurt the fragile economic recovery. The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund both had blunt warnings Thursday for national

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World Bank President: Elimination of Poverty Possible World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says the problems of poverty, hunger and inequality are massive, urgent and a matter of survival for millions. We know that despite the dramatic successes of the

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Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. The World Bank lends money to promote development, and to help achieve its goals it collects a lot of data. For years, the World Bank has been on

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By Barry Wood Washington 17 May 2007 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, 15 May 2007 The resignation followed a day-long meeting of the bank's 24-member executive board. In a statement, Wolfowitz said his resignation was in the best interests of the

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Statistics from the World Bank show that, completing 26 business regulation reforms in the past 15 years, China ranks No. 3 in the East Asia and Pacific region in its efforts to improve the domestic business environment. The country is only surpassed

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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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