Site Contributions: World Bank
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04/18/13 - Transparency Meme Reemerges at the SEC
A huddle over market transparency ... The SEC held a fixed income roundtable on Tuesday to discuss two important issues: market structure and ways to improve it for municipal ... |
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04/04/13 - A Regulatory Illusion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is much in the news these days given that Europe is convulsed first by monetary incompetence and then by IMF-oriented "austerity." As ... |
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03/21/13 - Globalization: Random or Directed?
How Globalization Went Pop and What It Means for Workers ... How do you measure how fast the world economy has "globalized"? Borrow a concept from physics. Call it global ... |
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03/15/13 - Reuters Editorial Celebrates Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy will set you free ... Two movements, fundamentally opposed, are at work in the world: corruption and anti-corruption. The marketization of the economies of China, ... |
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02/18/13 - Counterpunch African Paradigm Leaves Much to Be Desired
The West's War Against African Development Continues ... Africa's classic depiction in the mainstream media, as a giant basketcase full of endless war, famine and helpless ... |
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11/23/12 - Europe's Fine Line of Deep Debt
Merkel's day of reckoning as taxpayer haircut on Greece looms ... Germany, Holland, and the creditor states of northern Europe have not lost a single cent on eurozone rescue ... |
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07/21/12 - What Is the Real Reason for Doyle's Letter Blasting the IMF?
A senior economist for the International Monetary Fund, Peter Doyle, has merely reaffirmed what is evident and obvious about the IMF ... that it is not a proactive organization ... |
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06/16/12 - UN Plans to Expand the Phony Water Crisis ... 'Smart Water Meters' on the Way
UN-Water Survey Examines Water Law Reform ... Twenty years ago this June world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro for an Earth Summit to develop an action plan for sustainable ... |
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06/15/12 - Goldman Ponders the Possibility of World Depression
O'Neill's BRICs Risk Hitting Wall Threatening G-20 Growth ... Even Jim O'Neill is asking whether the BRICs need reinforcing 11 years after he coined the term to describe the ... |
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04/20/12 - Huge Water Resource Found in Africa: World Bank Steps In?
'Huge' water resource exists under Africa ... Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total ... |
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04/02/12 - The World Bank Is Hopeless and Changing Leaders Won't Help
Hats off to Ngozi ... A golden opportunity for the rest of the world to show Barack Obama the meaning of meritocracy ... When economists from the World Bank visit poor ... |
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03/27/12 - Elites Crush PIGS – Old Game Plan Made Anew?
Spain's economy contracts as recession fears grow ... The Spanish economy has shrunk for the first time in two years, increasing fears the country could be heading for a ... |
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03/04/11 - Watch Out, Africa ... The World Bank Has a 'Plan'
World Bank: Governance Key to Africa Growth ... The challenge of governance and leadership in Africa is "particularly acute" and had undermined the continent's ... |
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06/23/09 - Stocks Tumble on Bleak Outlook for World Economy
Surprisingly bleak forecast for the world economy sent stocks tumbling to their lowest level this month. Major stock indexes dropped by more than 2 percent Monday, sending the ... |
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06/17/09 - Central Banks Must Instigate a Return to Normality - Whatever That May Be
Normal is a slippery concept. What counts as a normal house in California would look like a mansion in Caracas. And the normal economy of 2009 might have been seen as a ... |
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