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Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group
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... finance ministers from the leading Western democracies, and presidents of organisations such as the World Bank and the bosses of the largest multinational corporations. Clinton, Blair, Bushes senior and junior, Cameron, Osborne, Kissinger, Bill ... Comment?
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Former trade ministers form panel
... NZ Pacific Partnership Forum in Washington. And another, Robert Zoellick, who is also a former President of the World Bank had star billing in the forum at the morning. Former Agriculture Secretary Anne Veneman, who is also a former head of Unicef, ... Comment?
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Income Biggest Barrier to Banking in Developing Countries
In high-income countries , the rich and the poor alike have bank accounts, but this is not true in developing countries, according to a Gallup/World Bank study. Comment?
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Preserve the Index to Promote Global Private Enterprise | Commentary
... a similar analysis. So the debate has been settled. Or has it? In recent weeks, a campaign to dismantle the World Bank's decade-old Doing Business Index has intensified. The Doing Business Index objectively evaluates and ranks countries by how ... Comment?
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On Native GroundA Bretton Woods Conference for the 21ST Century
... N.H., to shape the economic system for the post-World War II world. Out of that two week conference came the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the first-ever negotiated monetary system among ... Comment?
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Reporting: PakistanU.S. Arms Sales Bring Bloodshed, Bankruptcy to Pakistan
... even to this day, Pakistan's military is "the greatest single stabilizing force in the country." According to the World Bank, Pakistan's social indicators still lag far behind countries with comparable per-capita incomes - now less than $2 a day. ... Comment?
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An older and wiser Nawaz Sharif?
... of payments is in ruins, and it cannot meet its foreign debt obligations without negotiating new loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The country desperately needs foreign investment, but the plague of Islamist terrorism ... Comment?
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Bernanke upbeat on innovation outlook in commencement address
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attends the G20 finance ministers meeting during the Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, April 19, 2013. Comment?
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Beijing's Brand Ambassador
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... global order. We are now members of many international institutions, not only the United Nations but also the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. We have joined the World Trade Organization. We are taking part in many regional ... Comment?
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'Economic Prospects For The Long Run': Federal Reserve Chairman...
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... at the Group 20 finance ministers meeting during the Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington on April 19. Some stock-market observers believe this is good news because it indicates the country's economy is ... Comment?
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Developing world to dominate investment
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... half of the world's capital, up from less than a third today. According to new scenarios released Thursday by the World Bank, developing countries could control some $158tn (at 2010 rates) by 2030, particularly in East Asia and Latin America. By ... Comment?
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Top officials call to overhaul euro institutions
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In this April 23, 2010 file picture German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen, right, and Axel Weber, then governor of the central bank of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbank, brief reporters on their work at at the IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington. Comment?
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Pressure Mounting on U.S. over Congo Violence
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... on Congo's neighbouring states - particularly Rwanda - for supporting armed groups within eastern Congo. The World Bank has now withheld 135 million dollars from Rwanda for this reason, and there has likewise been pressure on the Congo to enact ... Comment?
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Developing countries to get bigger share of investments - World Bank
The percentage of global investment that goes to developing countries should triple in the next two decades as emerging economies catch up to richer nations and become more integrated into financial markets, the World Bank predicted in a report on Thursday. Comment?
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INTERVIEW-Central bank chief turns recovery skills on ...
... central bank of Somalia will be working on that in due time," Omer said. He did not give details, but the former World Bank employee who trained the Shanghai municipality on bond issues said he expected support on the issue from the International ... Comment?
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Developing World to Dominate Global Investment by 2030
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... half of the world's capital, up from less than a third today. According to new scenarios released Thursday by the World Bank, developing countries could control some 158 trillion dollars (at 2010 rates) by 2030, particularly in East Asia and Latin ... Comment?
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Developing countries to get bigger share of investments-WB
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The percentage of global investment that goes to developing countries should triple in the next two decades as emerging economies catch up to richer nations and become more integrated into financial markets, the World Bank predicted in a report on Thursday. Comment?
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BEIJING: Misleading portrayal of China in Africa
... by the US. But even China's so-called lending with no strings attached has come under attack from the West. A World Bank report released last week suggested Africa should promote more public-private partnerships to increase its competitiveness. It ... Comment?
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Study rates natural resources management
... of corruption. "We'll be very interested in engaging China," Kaufmann, who was born in Chile and is a former World Bank official, said after a presentation of the findings in Washington. The study found that only 11 of the 58 countries, less than 20 ... Comment?
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On Native GroundAMERICA Pays Dearly for Piling on Russia in '89
... blueprint - what became known as "The Washington Consensus" - was a precondition for getting aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It managed to turn Russia from a superpower to an economic basket case in less than a decade. ... Comment?
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