I have a vivid recollection of a World Bank staffer in 1992 hectoring the Minister of Agriculture of Albania, waggling her finger in his face. |
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The World Bank, founded in 1944, lends money and makes grants to developing countries around the world. |
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When you think about the World Bank job, first of all, even though if you're the top dog there, the prez, you don't really control it. |
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Countries like Somalia and Liberia are heavily indebted but will not qualify for debt relief from the World Bank anytime soon. |
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The World Bank and IMF require countries to implement such programs as a condition for new loans as well as debt relief. |
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The new World Bank resident representative in Sofia was presented to ministers and the media. |
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At age 32, I bought a custom-made Mercedes Benz that was shipped to me at the World Bank assignment I had taken up. |
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank encourage indebted countries to export primary goods such as coffee, cocoa or copper. |
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Between 1993 and 1996 he was the chief economist for Latin America at the World Bank. |
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This seems a remarkable view for a former chief economist of the World Bank. |
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He is second permanent secretary at the Treasury, but has also been the senior vice-president and chief economist at the World Bank. |
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A World Bank study of northeast Brazil estimates that moving farmland into smaller holdings would raise output as much as 80 percent. |
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For this reason, the World Bank imposed stringent conditions on Chad and Cameroon. |
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But in a recent study two World Bank economists found a surprising side to Somali statelessness. |
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Representatives of the American government, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund vet every potential oil contract. |
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The agreement was brokered by the World Bank and remains a model for amicable sharing of resources. |
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The consequences for the World Bank if it lost a suit filed by Indonesia would be unimaginable, he said. |
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This was because agricultural extension activities were tripartitely funded by World Bank, State and Federal governments. |
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Even worse, these utilities are often a continual drain and national budgets, thus the need to go to the IMF or World Bank for bailouts. |
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By the 1980s, the World Bank was more or less dictating the country's export and import trade through a system of tied aid. |
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The World Bank mediated a solution to the Indus River dispute, resulting in negotiation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. |
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Shepardson said that she thinks that people believe the World Bank is a secretive organization. |
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According to World Bank, 30 per cent of deaths due to accidents can be avoided if better emergency medical facilities are provided. |
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He means the military machine of NATO, multinational companies, and institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. |
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The IMF and World Bank have been advocating financial liberalisation for developing countries. |
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Last year the World Bank lent Sierra Leone a million dollars for a credit scheme, when the exchange rate was seven leones to the dollar. |
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The latest twist seems to be for conservationists to ask the World Bank to lean on the government to reduce logging taxes. |
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The World Bank demanded the rapid removal of price controls and all subsidies to farmers. |
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America had been insisting the World Bank was recompensed through cuts in aid programmes to Africa. |
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According to the World Bank, Beijing and Mexico City have the most severe air pollution of all the world's major cities. |
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For the movement which came of age in Seattle, the World Bank and the West Bank belong to the same political territory. |
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The World Bank has laid stress on dispute resolution outside the court and minimising the number of pending cases in adjudication. |
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The IMF and the World Bank find him a ridiculous figure, jetting around the world while his people starve. |
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The IMF and World Bank had periodically shared their fears with New Delhi about the uncontrolled rise in population levels. |
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She taught dressmaking, had two children, and moved to Bethesda, Md., when her husband went to work for the World Bank. |
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The event was timed to coincide with a World Bank meeting in Washington tomorrow, where finance ministers from across the world will discuss aid for basic education. |
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Blockades have gone up around the World Bank and IMF buildings. |
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Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, has nominated himself to be president of the World Bank. |
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The representatives in Zaire from the World Bank have sent a memo to Washington in which they report that it was abandoning its factory and repatriating its staff. |
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President of The World Bank Jim Yong Kim backed this up at a meeting of the European Union in Paris Friday. |
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Sana'a's population has doubled every six years since 1972, but the aquifer on which it depends for water could run dry by 2010, according to the World Bank. |
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That's why the World Bank attaches so many conditions when it sponsors. |
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There's an enormous conference in Austria this week called Money, Happiness and Impatience, with the best and the brightest, and the World Bank, jetting in for the talkfest. |
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With plenty of World Bank money on tap, the government borrowed and spent like a drunken sailor, artificially raising living standards and burying Hungary in debt. |
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The policy is a long-standing gentlemen’s agreement under which the IMF managing director is a European and the World Bank president is an American. |
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Green bonds, as the Wall Street Journal reports, got started with non-profit lenders like the World Bank. |
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Humanitarian Paul Farmer and World Bank Leader Jim Yong Kim captured the problem in a Washington Post article last week. |
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This time last year she dropped in at the White House during a trip to Washington to address the World Bank. |
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In 2011, the World Bank declared narcotics trafficking to be one of the greatest threats to development in Central America. |
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She contacted more than a dozen organizations, from U.N. Women to the World Bank South Asia and the Red Cross. |
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But with democracy suspended, the IMF and World Bank encouraged Indira to pursue the programme with renewed vigour. |
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In calculating percentage shares of income distribution the World Bank relies on household surveys of income or expenditures compiled by the various countries. |
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Post colonial studies have flourished in an age where IMF and World Bank austerity programmes have been renounced as harbingers of neo imperialism. |
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The methods of selecting architects are drawn from archaic and insensitive World Bank guidelines that are not concerned about creating architecture. |
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Further funding from the GEF and the World Bank has been made conditional on the meeting of the parties certifying that compliance by these states is satisfactory. |
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In 1990 the World Bank estimated that half the population was illiterate. |
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The World Bank has been particularly outspoken on this issue, with the imposition of fees a condition for higher education lending in several countries. |
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In Orissa, the state electricity board was corporatised in 1995 with backing of the World Bank, then split into four subsidiaries, which were then privatised. |
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Research at the World Bank, reported in the 1997 World Development Report, has shown that corruption has strong adverse effects on investment and economic growth. |
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The first one is based on the paper by Sarah Bibler and Elaine Zuckerman on unpaid care work in World Bank projects. |
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At one point in the 1990s, he worked at the World Bank with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. |
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The World Bank estimates that Bangladesh is ranked 1st in the world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition. |
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A recent World Bank study found that parliamentary systems are associated with less corruption. |
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According to World Bank, Poland has one of the best educational systems in Europe, placing it among the most educated nations. |
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Data on the fertilizer consumption per hectare arable land in 2012 are published by The World Bank. |
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The government entered into agreements with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to promote growth. |
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The political crisis of 1991 led to the suspension of IMF and World Bank assistance. |
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The World Bank has helped the Paraguayan government reduce the country's maternal and infant mortality. |
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According to the World Bank Group, the PRD has become the largest urban area in the world in both size and population. |
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Bahrain has a high Human Development Index and was recognised by the World Bank as a high income economy. |
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Colombia is now one of only three economies with a perfect score on the strength of legal rights index, according to the World Bank. |
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Ardito Barletta inherited a country in economic ruin and hugely indebted to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. |
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The economy of Peru is classified as upper middle income by the World Bank and is the 39th largest in the world. |
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In October 2015 Lima hosted the 2015 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. |
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According to the World Bank, Barbados is classified as being in its 66 top high income economies of the world. |
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According to the World Bank, Nicaragua ranked as the 123rd best economy for starting a business. |
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The World Bank, African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, and many other bilateral donors financed the project. |
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The World Bank reports that China was the top importer of ores and metals in 2005 followed by the US and Japan. |
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The World Bank ranks the United States first in the ease of hiring and firing workers. |
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Annette Dixon was accompanied by Akihiko Nishio, Director World Bank and Uzma Basim, Senior Country Officer World Bank. |
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The World Bank will continue to support Bangladesh in areas necessary to move up within middle income country status. |
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati MD, World Bank, and discussed the Banks program portfolio in Pakistan. |
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The World Bank has been working actively in South Sudan since 2005 to provide early assistance, given its urgent development needs. |
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The World Bank estimates that over 150 cubic kilometers of natural gas are flared or vented annually. |
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At the World Bank, for example, the lavishly paid globocrats seem incapable of stopping payment to Third World kleptoptocracies. |
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With regards to agriculture, the World Bank targets food production and water management as an increasingly global issue that will foster debate. |
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The country was ranked 169th overall and last in the East Asia and Pacific region by the Doing Business 2013 report by the World Bank. |
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Finland took part in trade liberalization in the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. |
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According to a World Bank report, nearly half of the poorest 20 percent of Kenyans use a private health facility when a child is sick. |
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A survey of Northeast Africa by the World Bank and UN ranked Somalia second only to Sudan as the top prospective producer. |
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Laura Tuck, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, today completed her visit to the Kyrgyz Republic. |
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The World Bank is in a unique position to help stop land grabs becoming one of the century's biggest scandals. |
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Finally, the WTO cooperates closely with the two other components of the Bretton Woods system, the IMF and the World Bank. |
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The World Bank announced today a doubling of their money for Ebola. |
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The World Bank reports that electricity is now in large part supplied by local businesses. |
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According to the World Bank, poor governance, corruption and weak public institutions are major challenges for Bangladesh's development. |
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The public school system is undergoing a revamp due to a project in conjunction with the World Bank. |
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According to the World Bank, Kuwait is the fourth richest country in the world per capita. |
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According to the World Bank, Pakistan has important strategic endowments and development potential. |
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According to the World Bank, the country has the fourth highest per capita income in the world. |
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Before joining GM, Chu was a macroeconomist at the Central and Eastern European division of the World Bank in Washington. |
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It plays a prominent role in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and in 2005 joined the World Trade Organization. |
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Such calculations are prepared by various organizations, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. |
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Although the Holy See is a sovereign state, it is not classified by the World Bank under this definition. |
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The World Bank and the IMF have tended to be excessively cautious and have thus acted as a brake upon the remission of multilateral debt. |
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Monaco is the richest country in terms of GDP per capita in the world according to the World Bank report. |
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The World Bank estimates that India is one of the highest ranking countries in the world for the number of children suffering from malnutrition. |
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Macedonia's economic growth has slowed down but only negligibly, says the World Bank in its latest 2015 report. |
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To meet this need, the said concessioner is promoting construction at a fast pitch with financing from the World Bank and others. |
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World Bank reports that Iraq was the top recipient of development aid in 2005 followed by Nigeria. |
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Data are in billions of international dollars and were compiled by the World Bank. |
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Before ConocoPhillips' case was taken up by a World Bank arbitration court in Washington, some of the 19-25 deg. |
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South Sudan plans to join the Commonwealth of Nations, the East African Community, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. |
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The World Bank reported in February 2009 that the Arab World was far less severely affected by the credit crunch. |
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The World Bank has analyzed impact of raise of tariffs on various sectors of population this year, the results were shared with the Kyrgyz government, he said. |
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Using this definition, the World Bank works towards improving quality of life through the stated goal of lowering poverty and helping people afford a better quality of life. |
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This text, published by The World Bank, offers a historical and international account of severance pay systems, their drawbacks, and proposals for reform. |
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Bank to fund the sustainable management programme for fish traps. |
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Similar opinions have been later expressed by an American magazine Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal and also by Mamta Murthi from the World Bank. |
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Today, it is also a member of the Commonwealth, the SAARC, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the Colombo Plan. |
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There are significant chances of joint cooperation between Egypt and the World Bank in financing small and medium enterprises, especially in Upper Egypt, Abdel Nour added. |
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Paul D. Wolfowitz, principal architect of the Iraq war and President Bush's handpicked choice to head the World Bank, has been in denial over whether he will keep his job. |
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It also operates several liaison offices, including those with the European Union, United Nations and a single office covering the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. |
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They have been criticised by the World Bank, primarily on the grounds of the inflexibility that results from government needing to approve dismissals. |
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Future pollution hazards are addressed and pollution hotspots are assessed not only by nations in the basin but also through regional projects with World Bank support. |
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Join the greatest lover in the history of the World Bank as he explores such positions as the Avenging Eagle, the Chicken Hawk, and Kvetch Landing on Subordinate. |
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Also, the US National Center for Education Statistics of the US Department of Education and the World Bank provide major support funding for the assessments. |
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In its report, the World Bank says most of the world's major economies are resorting to protectionist measures as the global economic slowdown begins to bite. |
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Former senior advisor to World Bank, Fateh M Chaudhary said that Quaid wanted to take the country to new economic destination in the shape of a welfare state. |
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They want democratic control of the global economy with the World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund and World Bank reformed, democratised or even replaced. |
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Less creditworthy countries sometimes borrow directly from commercial banks or international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. |
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Malaysia and the World Bank Group are said to be finalising an Office Support Agreement that would see the World Bank establish an office in the nation. |
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Namibia is also classified as an Upper Middle Income country by the World Bank, and ranks 87th out of 185 economies in terms of ease of doing business. |
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The Commissioner for Agriculture, Femi Abolarin, said that the World Bank mission is aimed at concretising the bank s support to the staple crop processing zone in Alape. |
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World Bank loan conditionalities are attached to a wide range of loans and largely center on the liberalization of trade, deregulation and privatization. |
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Nallari and Griffith, both economists with the World Bank, explore both how gender affects macroeconomic outcomes and how macroeconomic outcomes affect gender relations. |
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