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PENANG should make its historic downtown area in George Town a centre of innovation, said a World Bank economist. By housing research institutes and post-graduate institutions in the area, World Bank economic adviser Dr Shahid Yusof yesterday said that the island state can lure foreign students to its shores. "As Penang repositions herself, intellectual hotspots in the downtown area can make Penang...
Subtle title, right? I couldn’t resist, considering that literally all economists and government officials (outside of China, of course) have sounded off on the Chinese Yuan in the last month. Recent additions to this list include President Obama, Chiefs of the IMF and World Bank, President of the Asian Development Bank, US Commerce Secretary Locke [...]
On Tuesday, Transparency International (TI) released their 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), revealing that many sub-Saharan African countries remain among the most corrupt world-wide. The annually-released index ranks how corrupt governments are perceived to be, according to international institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. The 2009...
Russia’s recessionary contraction has been marked with several distinct features. First, capital account deteriorated significantly. In Q3:2009 it posted a $23.7 billion deficit, reflecting net capital outflows as a result of recovery uncertainties, exchange rate and oil price volatility and the inability of the Russian banking sector of debt repayment. Thus, net capital flows to [...] Related...
Good Morning, SuperForest! It’s Friday! And after a hectic week of studies and late nights writing an epic project proposal, I thought it’d be best to start the day off with someone wildly inspiring: Trevor Field. Trevor Field, was an advertising executive who had lived a considerably good life. Upon retiring, he felt it was time to [...]
by Debbie Barker Image: Tom Twigg for GristThere are those who would like us to believe that industrialized farming is the only way to feed the earth’s growing population. Disinformation comes daily from powerful industrial agricultural companies whose profits depend entirely on the sale of chemicals, genetically modified (GM) seeds, and food processing. Furthermore, they maintain that massive-scale...
Micro finance Institution Funding : BB Governor Contradicts WB Observation Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rhaman on Tuesday expressed dismay over a World Bank observation regarding banking sector’s partnership with the microfinance institutions, according to report in local press. In a recent stocktaking, the World Bank observed that channeling money from the banks to farm loan projects through...
As you might know, December 1st is World AIDS Day. To commemorate this annual event, the World Bank will be hosting a forum in Washington, DC on “Linking HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Maternal and Child Health.” Speakers and panelists will include US Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby, Executive Director of the Global Fund for AIDS, [...]
Twenty years after the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we must do more to listen to vulnerable children To 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an utter irrelevance. For the past year Mumo and her family have been struggling to stay alive in the drought-ridden Masinga district of eastern Kenya with little food or water...
Former President Bill Clinton was in Jerusalem on Sunday, where he repeated the 'Palestinians' lies about demographics. "Two things remain unchanged since 1993 – geography and demographics. Palestinians have more children than Israelis can have or import." Yoram Ettinger points out that, as always, Clinton is lying. 5. A September 2006 World Bank survey of education in Judea, Samaria...
Authored by: Diana Hollmann It's Friday in the 2009 Global Entrepreneurship Week ! 20,000 events involving 5 million people around the globe planned for November 16-22. On Monday, here in Washington, IFC held a one-day conference addressing the issue of achieving scale in entrepreneurship. The conference featured representatives from IFC and World Bank, the White House, the US Department of State,...
The Times reports that small businesses spent longer doing their taxes in 2008 than in 2007, despite Labour's promise to reduce red tape. Small and medium-sized businesses in Britain spent on average an extra five hours working on their taxes, mainly because of the temporary cut in VAT in December last year. The total number of hours spent filling in tax returns rose to a record average of 110, up...
Investorideas.com Ongoing Green Investor Audio Series with Michael Brush Gives Insight into Sector with Leading Renewable Energy Experts POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta B.C., August 20, 2008 - www.InvestorIdeas.com , one of the first online investor resources providing in-depth information on renewable energy, greentech and water, is pleased to provide interested investors with a recent audio interview
Very few words are more fanciful than the words electronic governance (e-governance). These words have a tendency to portray an image of all advanced Nation or capable manpower. But the bigger question is what is more important; the image or reality? We have to analyse this question in the light of e-governance in India and the efforts of Government of India to achieve the Herculean task of being an
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