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The Nigerian contender for the position of president of the World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, 57, has called on the United States to take the lead in breaking the long-standing tradition of an American always heading the World Bank.
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We, who bask in the genius of Western economic theories on an hourly basis, hope to bring China around to our Nirvana-like level of brilliance. The World Bank has decided to help China escape its sinful prosperity.
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While headlines about the U. S. default on August 2 tops all the reporting, I find no concrete statements about what the real consequences might be, concluding -- most likely -- this is a thin veil, a veneer, a front of little consequence on main street.
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Speaking in Washington and concerned over rising food prices and lingering instability in the Middle East and Africa, World Bank President Robert Zoellick believes the global economy is "one shock away" from a major crisis.
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The best place to do business is Singapore, says a World Bank index which ranks economies on their ease of doing business.
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During the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, which concluded at the end of October, the World Bank announced two linked initiatives that aim to protect ecosystems and species at risk of extinction.
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Eduardo Gold, a Peruvian inventor, perturbed by the melting of glaciers in the Andes Mountains, has come up with a solution -- paint the Andes white.
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The World Bank is set to provide an additional $100 million in emergency grant funding to support recovery and reconstruction in Haiti.
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Claiming Palestinian farmers are stealing water from the central source shared by both Israelis and Palestinians, Israel has implemented water restrictions on Palestinians in the disputed West Bank.
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As a five-day anti-corruption convention got underway on Monday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the United Nations said the cost of political corruption to governments around the world is about $1.6 trillion each year.
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The European Central Bank is readying another round of low interest loans for Europe's banks that could top 500bn euros.
Second largest U.S. bank has been running trials in three states.
 The Bank of Canada had denied a report in the British media that the bank's governor, Mark Carney, has been approached to take over the same post at the Bank of England.
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