World Bank Group

...aircraft en masse and before long the city was besieged with black limousines, flashing blue lights and motorcycle escorts. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held their annual meeting IN this city on the Bosporus...

In this article: UNEP, UN, Nairobi, Copenhagen, Kofi Annan, The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and Istanbul

...up significantly, but we must do so in a way that is efficient and leverages U.S. investments in the arena of climate," Geithner said. "The World Bank will specifically have a central role in contributing to financing the transition to a green...

In this article: Timothy Geithner, United States, London, Washington, Pittsburgh, Poverty, Derivative, Recession, Climate change, and The World Bank

...developing countries to increase their trade by removing red tape, reducing bribery and corruption, and improving infrastructure. The World Bank has estimated that cutting costs by 50 percent to increase efficiency at ports and airports...

In this article: World Trade Organization, Doha, Geneva, Doha round, The World Bank, United States, China, and Reuters

...only a handful of the apes and in the long term they would die out because the gene pool is too small to be biologically viable. The World Bank has stopped lending money to the palm-oil industry amid concerns about the impacts of...

In this article: Borneo, Orangutan, Sumatra, London, Deforestation, World Land Trust, and The World Bank

...program last fall to help safety-net programs. More than $3.2 million has been contributed, and the program is seeking $2 million more. The World Bank Group increased its match of employee donations from 50 percent to two for one. Last year,...

In this article: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Virginia

...day. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman to be the finance and the foreign minister of Nigeria, is a managing director of the World Bank Group, five international organizations that make leveraged loans to poor and emerging countries.

In this article: Alberto Fujimori, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Hiv/aids, Malaria, Transparency International, and Nigeria

...economies must handle their monetary and currency policies carefully to avoid unleashing a wave of potentially destabilizing inflation, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Friday. </p><p>The U.S. and European economies, which are...

In this article: Robert Zoellick, Inflation, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Federal Reserve, Singapore, World Bank, World Bank, U.S., China, and Asia

"Now increasingly, we find that emerging market countries (and) financial centers are also harbors for this money." The World Bank official said the pledge by the Group of 20 nations (G20), meeting this weekend in Scotland, to help...

In this article: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, The World Bank, UN, World Bank, Scotland, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

...to the recent devastating tsunami. The announcement was made by Mr. Daboub during a visit to Samoa for the opening of the joint World Bank Group and Asian Development Bank liaison office in Apia. The Managing Director is the most...

In this article: Samoa, Juan Jose Daboub, Climate change, Apia, United Nations, Democracy, Minister of Finance, and Development Assistance Committee

...the United States and Europe "offering many member countries too little voice and too few opportunities for participation." "We see the World Bank Group maintaining its central role in the global financial architecture, but, like you, believe...

In this article: Ernesto Zedillo, Robert Zoellick, People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, International Monetary Fund, and Goldman Sachs