World Bank offers to help Bangladesh find &quot;stolen assets&quot;
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The World Bank said Saturday it is ready to help Bangladesh&#39;s military-backed government bring back stolen money allegedly siphoned off by politicians and businessmen during the previous governments.
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Bangladeshi authorities are to name publicly hundreds of corruption suspects, including former ministers, as part of a major graft crackdown by the new interim government, according to an official.
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A national database is being set up to help return lost and stolen phones to their rightful owners.
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The World Bank and four of the  largest regional development banks agreed on Sunday to share  evidence and use common methods to probe corruption, but not  all of them plan to publish companies' names.
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TOKYO: Donors to Iraq&#39;s reconstruction are examining billions of dollars in aid pledges that have gone mostly unused amid an insurgency, as the interim government appealed for firmer world support.
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In an unusual move, the United Nations said Monday it will use an outside accounting firm to help track the billions of dollars pledged to help the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
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The World Bank has called upon the governments of poor countries to work for improving their investment climates as done by India and China, saying it was central to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman said yesterday that a donor agency suspended assistance worth 300 million dollars to Bangladesh after labelling the country as the most corrupt nation by Berlin ...
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Bangladesh's new government vowed to stamp out corruption and restore order. But a new report outlining the arrest and abuse of a local journalist raises concerns it's pushing too far
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The government on Wednesday invited the world's bounty hunters to search Colombia's jungles and cities for Marxist rebel commanders and bring them back in exchange for hefty cash rewards.
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The UN seeks to clarify the fate of a human rights expert prevented from leaving Bangladesh.
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[World News] Dhaka, Aug 26 : Bangladesh will seek Interpol&#39;s assistance to probe a bomb attack on an opposition rally last week that left 19 people dead and some 200 wounded.
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Federal and local authorities, under the auspices of the New York Asset Forfeiture Task Force, have recently served grand-jury subpoenas seeking testimony in the circulationscandals
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The World Bank under Paul Wolfowitz's leadership provided $34.3 billion in loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to developing countries in fiscal 2007, $2.7 billion more than in 2006, the lender said on Tuesday.
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The massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland may have been carried out by paramilitary group the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to provide a &quot;pension fund&quot; for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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Ivory Coast rebels demanded that an international inquiry be opened into last week's theft of more than 100 million CFA francs from a bank in the western city of Man, allegedly by French troops serving as peacekeepers in the west African state.
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GENEVA : China called on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help small textile and clothing exporting countries that are threatened by the end of import quotas at the end of the year.