World Bank chief calls for new direction for lender
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World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Sunday called on the bank's 185 member nations to back a new direction for the poverty-fighting institution and give the private sector a bigger role in helping poor nations.
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Global lenders need to offer more grants and debt relief to poor countries and tailor lending toward the private sector, Treasury Secretary John Snow said today.
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Finance Minister P Chidambaram will lead a high-level delegation for the annual IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington from October 1, where New Delhi would press for higher aid flows for infrastructure and social development.
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Rodrigo Rato, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on Tuesday urged Argentina to increase government saving and to arrive at a âcomprehensiveâ agreement with its private creditors.
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The World Bank agrees a $12bn loan fund for India and promises to take a more open-handed approach.
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In a commentary published in Africa International (France), Callisto Madavo, the World Bank&#39;s (former) Vice President for the Africa Region, writes that Africans need jobs.
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International Monetary Fund chief   Rodrigo Rato called on policy makers on Sunday to be ready for   a slowdown in the United States, despite the prospect of strong   growth in the world economy, and to tackle rising price   pressures.
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Global lenders need to offer more grants and debt relief to impoverished countries and tailor their lending toward building up the private sector, US Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Thursday.
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Global finance chiefs on Saturday  called for a more broad-based effort to calm financial markets,  including tighter scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund  and other institutions of increasingly powerful state-owned  investment funds.
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The G24 group of developing nations demands a bigger say at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
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The World Bank's president said on Thursday he was confident it would raise record funds to aid
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke is suggesting that policy makers look for ways to encourage a wider range of mortgages geared for low-income and other borrowers who have been hard hit by the housing slump and credit crunch.
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Robert Zoellick, picked by U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday to head the World Bank, said his biggest challenge would be to "calm the waters" following the storm over outgoing president Paul Wolfowitz.
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A siege mentality prevails at a World Bank unit that investigates allegations of misconduct and corruption in bank-financed projects, an independent panel says. It recommends the group reach out to other departments and outside advisers to deal with its problems.
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World Bank President James  Wolfensohn told the Bush administration on Monday that he will  leave his post at mid-year, triggering a hunt for a replacement  for the top job at the global lender.
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Robert Zoellick, the U.S. choice to head the World Bank, warned Saturday that Venezuela's economic and political troubles were growing
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The United States is calling on international lending institutions to reform their ways of operating so that they can give more aid to poor nations.