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The World Economy is Stabilizing - How is U.S. Economy? »
Posted by: WikiMap 4 months, 1 week ago in News
The U.S. economy seems to be facing very problematical times in today’s day and age. We are in the midst of recession and ...
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Israelis get four-fifths of scarce West Bank water, says World Bank »
Posted by: dissent 6 months ago in News
A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times ...
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The Secret History of the American Empire : Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption »
Posted by: dissent 4 months, 4 weeks ago in News
AMY GOODMAN: Well, before we go further, “economic hit men” -- for those who haven’t heard you describe this, let alone describe yourself as this ...
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The IMF: Raping The World, One Poor Nation at a Time »
Posted by: dissent 7 months ago in News
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been described as one of the enforcers of globalization. Nations who receive IMF assistance are often forced to surrender ...
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World Bank - Africa Needs U.S. $93 Billion For Infrastructure »
Posted by: newsguy2005 1 week, 4 days ago in News
The World Bank said yesterday that the amount needed to fix infrastructure in Africa is twice what was previously estimated. It put the new figure ...
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Robert McNamara's Second Vietnam »
Posted by: berkeley 4 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
As president of the Bank, the world's premier channel for multilateral aid, McNamara did quadruple the institution's lending portfolio to $12 billion. The ...
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Global Financial Assets Lost $50 Trillion Last Year, ADB Says - Bloomberg.com »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The global economy is likely to shrink for the first time since World War II, and trade will decline by the most in 80 years ...
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Poverty stricken residents get help »
Posted by: veejay23 1 week ago in Family
Joining the global bid to end poverty, more than 300 Clairwood residents in Durban received a scrumptious meal, bars of soap and were encouraged to ...
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World Bank says global economy will shrink in 2009 »
Posted by: mwendt86 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The World Bank said Sunday that the global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II and that the global ...
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Andean Glaciers Under Threat From Climate Change »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The World Bank warned Tuesday that the Andean glaciers and the region's permanently snow-covered peaks could disappear in 20 years if no measures are ...
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World Banks Warns The Worst May Not Be Over–24/7 Wall Street »
Posted by: glassman96 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, was born in Naperville, Illinois. He was educated at Harvard Law School and worked at Goldman Sachs and the State ...
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Wipro is banned by World Bank, Shame to India »
Posted by: khan034 10 months ago in Business & Finance
It was reported that Wipro was banned by the World Bank for two reasons as follows: Favoring World Bank employees (that is, customer’s employees ...
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Did Derivatives Drive the Meltdown? »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A World Bank economist is suggesting we need to concentrate less on the complexities of high finance and more on the noxious simplicity of our ...
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The Great Disruption »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 year, 2 months ago in News
Oil has long been regarded as the commodity with the most potential for economic mischief, and the one around which much of the world' s ...
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Gaza banks on brink of collapse: World Bank - Yahoo! News UK »
Posted by: dissent 11 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The World Bank urged Israel on Saturday to allow cash into the Gaza Strip to pay the wages of civil servants, warning that the liquidity ...
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