World bank urges poor countries to improve investment climates
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The World Bank wants the governments of poor countries to do more to improve their investment climates, action it described as central to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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The World Bank warns Cambodia that it needs to quicken reform to avoid severe economic problems.
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Dozens of world leaders appealed at UN headquarters on Monday for an international initiative to ensure the poor can join the wealthy in sharing in the benefits of a global economy.
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The World Bank said on Wednesday it had approved a $600 million loan for India to help it revamp thousands of ailing rural cooperative banks and fight village poverty through cheap loans.
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As the International Monetary Fund   embarks on a second round of reforms to give developing   countries more say in the institution, the World Bank signaled   on Wednesday that it was ready to go the same route.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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The World Bank and member countries are moving to help poor nations tackle corruption, after months of discussions.
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Slovakia and Colombia are the countries who have improved their business climates the most in the past year, a World Bank report says.
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The economies of sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the most extreme and pervasive poverty in the world, will grow at a healthy pace next year, International Monetary Fund economists said yesterday.
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Many efforts to curb climate change pay little attention to conservation or the world's poor, a think-tank warns.
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The world economy has  weathered sharp drops in asset prices well so far but could  face a slowdown if market volatility continues, central bank  chiefs from key developing nations said on Saturday.
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Britain needs to spend more to help poorer nations deal with climate change, Oxfam says.
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The world's poorest nations are at a technological disadvantage, says a United Nations trade body.
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Financial Times, 29 September 2004 - Developing countries must take action to reduce corruption and cronyism in order to improve investment climates and promote growth and poverty reduction, the World Bank said yesterday.
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Aid to Africa needs to increase by at least 60% if poverty is to be cut, the World Bank said.
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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 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.