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  • Afghanistan: World Bank Provides More Support to Improve Health Services 15 May 2008 21:55 GMT
    ... ─ The World Bank today approved a US$20 million grant to support the Government of Afghanistan’s effort to expand delivery of basic health services, ...

  • World Bank, Standard Chartered launch tiny loan plan for poor 15 May 2008 21:55 GMT
    ... World Bank, Standard Chartered launch tiny loan plan for poor WASHINGTON (AFP) - The ... up to expand the microfinance, or tiny loans, to impoverished borrowers in Africa and Standard ...

  • World Bank Support for Electricity Sector Efficiency Improvement in Guinea through GEF Funding 15 May 2008 19:37 GMT
    ... – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors endorsed the ... as implementing agency, of a US$4.5 million grant approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) ... bulbs, energy audits), and (iii) other technical assistance to Electricité de Guinée (EDG) related to ...

  • The food crisis and the failure of capitalism 15 May 2008 19:19 GMT
    ... the past few months. Another source, the World Bank, says that that in the 36 months ... a condition of providing a desperately needed loan, the International Monetary Fund required Haiti to ... International Monetary Fund have refused to advance loans to poor countries unless they agree to ...

  • What Michael Pollan 15 May 2008 18:12 GMT
    ... a graduate student, I worked at the World Bank. The way the international development industry ... a space for international organizations that make loans to democratic governments. I also think that ...

  • Manufacturing a Food Crisis 15 May 2008 18:11 GMT
    ... by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and Washington. The process began with ... adjustment programs imposed as the price for assistance in servicing external debt. Structural adjustment brought ... governments of the South have refused to grant wider access to their agricultural markets and ...

  • IFC and Partners Cosponsor Mobile Banking Summit in Egypt to Foster Sustainable Commercial Solutions 15 May 2008 17:40 GMT
    ... D.C., May 2008IFC, a member of the World Bank Group; the GSM Association; the Consultative ... IFC has provided over $2 billion in loans to support sector reforms, capacity building, and ...

  • How One Region Has Gone from Breadbasket to Food Crisis 15 May 2008 17:36 GMT
    ... (IAAKSTD), an intergovernmental entity initiated by the World Bank and Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), ... had to go begging for emergency food assistance. The Green Revolution arrived in India shortly ...

  • 30 years ago Haiti grew all the rice it needed. 15 May 2008 17:15 GMT
    ... But, in order to get the IMF loan, Haiti was required to reduce tariff protections ... In 1994, as a condition for U.S. assistance in returning to Haiti to resume his ... by the U.S., the IMF, and the World Bank to open up the markets in Haiti ...

  • AustraliaPraised For New Refugee Policy 15 May 2008 16:19 GMT
    ... Affairs, has disclosed that all the recent World Bank (WB) funded projects in The Gambia are ... Nigeria that would see the company provide loans to meet funding shortfalls that have cut ... organization indicated that a USD 15 million loan would finance a development project for children ...

  • UN warns of 'second wave of deaths' as Myanmar braces for new cyclone 15 May 2008 16:19 GMT
    ... Affairs, has disclosed that all the recent World Bank (WB) funded projects in The Gambia are ... Nigeria that would see the company provide loans to meet funding shortfalls that have cut ... organization indicated that a USD 15 million loan would finance a development project for children ...

  • Rwandan parliament to create public accounts watchdog 15 May 2008 16:19 GMT
    ... Affairs, has disclosed that all the recent World Bank (WB) funded projects in The Gambia are ... Nigeria that would see the company provide loans to meet funding shortfalls that have cut ... organization indicated that a USD 15 million loan would finance a development project for children ...

  • World Bank eyes slower 2008 Latin American growth 15 May 2008 16:19 GMT
    ... Affairs, has disclosed that all the recent World Bank (WB) funded projects in The Gambia are ... Nigeria that would see the company provide loans to meet funding shortfalls that have cut ... organization indicated that a USD 15 million loan would finance a development project for children ...

  • Global Challenges - World Bank Announces Plan To Implement Long-Term Development Projects To Fight HIV/AIDS in Afric 15 May 2008 14:53 GMT
    ... Global Challenges | World Bank Announces Plan To Implement Long-Term Development Projects ... based on country demand and create a grant incentive fund of $5 million annually to ...

  • Teacher Training Colleges congratulates President Kufuor 15 May 2008 13:19 GMT
    ... is through education that we would become part of mainstream globalization.” President Kufuor later granted audience to former World Bank President Mr James Wolfensen, who is in the country to deliver a lecture. He ...

  • Dhumal to launch Rs 1,365cr WB funded road 15 May 2008 12:15 GMT
    ... An ambitious Rs 1,365 crore World Bank funded project for constructing and improving roads ... 990 crore would be a World Bank loan and Rs 375.43 crore the borrower component. The minister ... the state by the Centre on a grant basis. ...

  • EBRD to elect Mirow 15 May 2008 11:25 GMT
    ... post-transition years," added Roe, who was the World Bank's principal economist for Europe and Central Asia ... that stemmed from the collapsed US home loan market and the subsequent global credit crunch. ...

  • Trips so far, so good for aid-driven teens 15 May 2008 10:56 GMT
    ... now the things we once took for granted.” Kusek's experience is being repeated by an ... Africa working on HIV/AIDS issues for the World Bank. Jenna reminded her parents they'd always told ...

  • Asean to activate all mechanisms 15 May 2008 10:37 GMT
    ... Washington to seek financial support from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Vitavas ... weeks initially at Thai expense. Burma would grant entry visas for the Thai medical team ... leaders to open up for more international assistance, notably from Western countries, after United Nations ...

  • Food crisis requires new green revolution-Congress 15 May 2008 09:49 GMT
    ... in recent decades as donors like the World Bank and the U.S. government turned to ... the administration will respond in overhauling farm assistance. President George W. Bush called this month ...

  • World Bank report says HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be Africa's leading cause of death and lost GDP 15 May 2008 06:54 GMT
    ... The World Bank has mobilized more than $1.5 billion to ... based on country demand and establish a grant incentive fund of $5 million annually to ...

  • BIDEN Announces Four-Part Plan for Addressing Global Food Crisis 15 May 2008 06:51 GMT
    ... the past three years. According to the World Bank, rice prices have risen by around ... working class families. "For 20 years, foreign assistance funding for agriculture development has been declining. ...

  • Teacher Training Colleges commend Kufuor 15 May 2008 06:09 GMT
    ... is through education that we would become part of mainstream globalization. President Kufuor later granted audience to former World Bank President Mr James Wolfensen, who is in the country to deliver a lecture. He ...

  • Liberia receives US$11 million from the World Bank 15 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... to assist Liberia to address immediate technical assistance needs to consolidate gains in governance and ... of government accounts for the legislative scrutiny. World Bank Country Director for Liberia , on ...

  • Teacher Training Colleges say well done to President Kufuor 15 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... is through education that we would become part of mainstream globalization. President Kufuor later granted audience to former World Bank President Mr James Wolfensen, who is in the country to deliver a lecture. He ...


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