Paul Volcker: How to Fix the World Bank
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The World Bank, reeling from scandal and questions about its role, needs to get its act together, says former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Paul Volcker.
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Playing down a funding row with   Britain, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz defended his   controversial anti-corruption campaign on Friday, saying the   bank could not tolerate misuse of its funds to poor countries.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on the world's poorest continent.
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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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The World Bank and the United Nations are creating a system to help track assets stolen by corrupt leaders.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: An interdependent world faces many challenges. Britain should promote a coalition of democracies to tackle them.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs  has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on  the world's poorest continent.
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Less than a decade ago, economists at the International Monetary Fund were jetting into the capitals of countries stricken by financial crises, patching together rescue plans aimed at staving off global economic chaos.
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Â· Conditional support excludes right to vetoÂ· PM also calls for reform of World Bank and IMF
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A World Bank report that measures factors like corruption control, government accountability and absence of violence, released on Tuesday, shows little overall improvement in governance worldwide despite increasing focus on the issue.
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President George W. Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former U.S. trade representative, to replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, a senior American official said on Tuesday.
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At a time when the Federal Reserve chairman has rock star status, it&#39;s hard to imagine the world&#39;s greatest central bank as an obscure federal agency struggling for its independence.
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The World Bank's new boss, Robert Zoellick, tells the BBC that the organisation still has a vital role to play.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former U.S. Trade Representative, as the new president for the World Bank to replace Paul Wolfowitz, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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Divisions over the World Bank's   handling of corruption burst into the open on Monday ahead of a   vote on governance reforms likely to expose deep fault lines at   the bank's sister agency, the International Monetary Fund.
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The world's finance ministers and central bankers are paid to be careful souls. Even in the inner sanctum of the International Monetary Fund's annual meetings, many of them read their statements to each other ...
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.