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Times Online (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Had she wanted to, Kate Mortimer could have risen to the top of any number of professions. As it was, she moved easily between the public and private sectors, between the World Bank in Washington and private banking in the City of London, between the British Government’s Know-How Fund for Eastern Europe and several heavyweight non-executive directorships.
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
from the New York Times By ANDREW C. REVKIN The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group concludes in a new report. The review, released Tuesday, examined some of the $400 billion in investments in nearly 7,000 projects from 1990 to 2007. It found that recent pledges for environmental...
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the World Bank's internal watchdog, is about to release its newest assessment of the Bank's record on the environment, and according to Environmental Defense Fund, the news is not good. The evaluation analyzes the effectiveness of the World Bank Group in addressing the environmental sustainability of its programs in developing countries over the period of 1990-2007....
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced the
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jobgolds (Free subscription) | yesterday
To strengthen the World Bank’s infrastructure program in the Indonesia, the World Bank Office in Jakarta is recruiting for the position of: Water and Sanitation Specialist(Job #081525) The applicant should possess the following characteristics: Master’s Degree or higher in water and sanitation engineering, WSS engineering and utility management experience, or other field related to utility or municipal...
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tahrcountry (Free subscription) | yesterday
Environmental campaigners had always criticized the way World Bank doled out aid to developing countries. They have been consistently arguing that it has led to deforestation in the tropics. Here is proof that they were right in voicing their concern. World banks bank’s Independent Evaluation Group has criticized the bank for failures to grasp fully the environmental impacts of its programmes in poor...
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Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
World Bank Shots on Corruption Source: The Wall Street Journal July 23, 2008 The World Bank is nothing if not persistent. In recent weeks, the bank has announced low-interest loans of $320 million apiece to Bangladesh and Vietnam, despite their awful corruption records. Since May, Bangladesh's military-backed government has arrested an estimated 12,000 people without charge and confined them to overcrowded...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
The plan to improve the station areas is moving at snail speed as the city's developers are no longer under the whip of World Bank (WB) officials.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Corruption had become so endemic that observers have come to the conclusion that it is the virus that caused the "acquired fiscal management deficiency syndrome" of governance in Liberia.
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
A University of Iowa international development expert is proposing a new method of holding the World Bank accountable when its development projects damage communities in developing countries.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group said.
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
In 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference established the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Every year at the end of March, the Minister of Finance tables a . As of 2008, these annual reports provide a comprehensive introduction to the institutions and Canada’s place within them, an overview of Canadian priorities and actions in 2007, and Canadian medium- term priorities looking forward.[The...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Nairobi, Kenya - The World Bank is planning to double its contributions to the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) to US$ 280 million to facilitate regional trade in Africa in line with the insurance body's expanding membership, executives said here Tuesday.
