Gov't to withhold funds from World Bank in protest
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Britain is to withhold a 50-million-pound contribution to the World Bank in protest at conditions attached to aid for developing countries.
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 15 -- The leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, meeting here for a gathering of financial leaders, sharply rebuked the host government on Friday for barring the entry of 27 accredited members of anti-poverty and environmental organizations. They accused...
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz   on Friday called Singapore's restrictions on the entry of   activists for the World Bank/IMF meetings "authoritarian."
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The World Bank lacks motivation in its approach to anti-corruption work, an official inquiry says.
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A new World Bank anti-corruption   strategy for developing countries should not interfere with   funding for alleviating poverty, British development secretary   Hilary Benn said on Monday.
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Non-governmental organizations are discussing a boycott of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Singapore to protest the city-state's hardline stand against activists, organizers have said.
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More than 160 non-governmental groups declared a boycott of IMF and World Bank meetings in Singapore to protest against a clampdown on free speech and the banning of activists.
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Fighting corruption was to top the agenda for a meeting of the World Bank's policy-setting panel on Monday, President Paul Wolfowitz said, insisting bad governance was the biggest obstacle to reduction in poverty.
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Britain is to withhold a 50 million-pound (74 million-euro, 94 million-dollar) contribution to the World Bank in protest at conditions attached to aid for developing countries.
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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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Business & money: Bank's management faces hostile shareholder meeting amid signs fate is in the government's hands
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests in  Bolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authorities  to meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concession  run by a foreign company.
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The International Monetary Fund's  top policy-making group failed on Saturday to close divisions  over debt relief for the world's poorest countries.
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David Livingstone says the idea behind the economic boycott he's organizing is simple: If people don't show up at work or buy things, companies lose money. As he sees it, that's money the Bush administration can't tax, and can't use to run the war in Iraq, protect polluters or chip away at the Constitution.
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Â· Traditional owners protest at government crackdown Â· Police sent in after report of rampant child sex abuse
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The medical aid group Medecins Sans  Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) urged donors Tuesday to  stop sending it money for Asian tsunami victims, saying it had  collected enough funds to manage its relief effort there.
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The International Monetary Fund appears to be unable to agree on a debt relief plan for the world's poorest nations.