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<title>Finance Industry Today: World Bank &amp; Assistance News</title>
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<title>DRC: Mining multi-nationals get deal of the century</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179336064</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 20:08 GMT</pubDate>
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...  make a deal with private partners. The World Bank supervised the operation. In 2003 it financed  ...  their wealth. When Zimbabwe came to the assistance of the government in Kinshasa, it took  ...  C and should be annulled. The terms granted to private companies associated with Gcamines took  ...
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<title>Despite bleak school stats, Canada embarks on ambitious Afghan education program</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179326533</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 17:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  from the U.S., $30 million from the World Bank, and donations from a number of Scandinavian  ...  tasks that Canadians elementary-schoolchildren would take for granted. The UN-run program has doubled in size  ...
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<title>Coal-based power must for India&apos;s energy needs: IFC</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179312829</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 13:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  come, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank&apos;s private sector lending arm, says. Explaining the  ...  its decision to extend a 20-year tenor loan of $450 million to Indian energy major  ...
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<title> Browse Mole what?</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179310246</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 12:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a coup. The possibility of foreign military assistance was also purportedly discussed. Further information contained  ...  to take up a position at the World Bank, refused to give the task team access  ...
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<title>Bolivia: MAS, opposition prepare for recall referendums</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179303396</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 10:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  taxes. Bolivia has refused to allow the World Bank to arbitrate the dispute, citing the fact  ...  on July 17 that they would contribute loans of $230 million and $300 million respectively  ...
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<title>Dar set to benefit from USD24.5m river blindness control program</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179302078</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 10:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  blindness in Africa. ADF is the soft loan window of the African Development Bank (AfDB)  ...  through a trust fund managed by the World Bank. This financing modality chosen at the establishment  ...  of participating countries, and NGOs. The ADF grant will meet 20 percent of total cost  ...
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<title>Goldman Sachs Chief Learning Officer Named Dean of UC Berkeley&apos;s Haas School of Business</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179295629</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 08:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the Distinguished Teaching Award. Lyons has been granted several National Science Foundation Awards, including a  ...  consulted with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, and Citibank. He  ...
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<title>Good governance measures reflect global consensus</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179289590</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  (MCC), which has provided roughly $6bn in assistance to 16 nations since its founding in  ...  Burkino Faso. In a recent report, the World Bank seeks to bridge the gap between abstract  ...
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<title>Socialist Forum On Sale of Ghana Telecom</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179285517</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 06:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  National Fibre-optic Backbone (financed by a Chinese loan and yet to be completed) VRAs Fibre-optic  ...  NCA was in fact sought and then granted. Any such process of approval will publish  ...  tutelage and supervision of the IMF &amp; World Bank, all our governments have declared that we  ...
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<title>Price of crude pressures Latin America prosperity</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179283763</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 05:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  sucked into the same downward spiral, the World Bank estimates. In Africa, food riots have erupted  ...  in the central market downtown, cadged a loan from her employer. She recently took a  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe: A &apos;Sham&apos; Election Read the Book column</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179277442</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT</pubDate>
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...  community&quot;, especially multilateral financial institutions like the World Bank and the IMF. This has had a  ...  week, friends should not be taken for granted. There is no guarantee that in future  ...
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<title>Madagascar: Early Recovery to Mitigate Emergency Response</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179275689</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 04:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  gap between emergency humanitarian action and development assistance can become too wide to cross. &quot;When  ...  by the government, UN agencies and the World Bank to assure efficient transition from emergency to  ...
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<title>&apos;High Food Prices Good for Farmers&apos;</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179274654</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  will include offering conditional cash transfers. We are also committed to increasing official development assistance by 2010 by 0.35% of gross domestic product. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are also ready to give additional financing in the  ...
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<title>Middle Income Countries to Review Status</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179273707</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  terms of international donor funding and preferential loans, he added. Both Shivute and Asheeke argue  ...  conditioned to pay exorbitant interest rates in loan repayments compared to a least developed country,  ...  added that there is need for the World Bank to re-look at Namibia&apos;s special needs. Katjavivi  ...
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<title>IFC Helps Launch First Private Student Loan Program</title>
<link>http://finance.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179273454</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2008 04:44 GMT</pubDate>
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... IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is partnering with Commercial Bank of  ...  in Kenya to introduce a new student loan product. This will reduce the financial burden  ...  structure to reduce the remaining risk. The loans will be priced at 12 percent a  ...
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