World Bank's $3.5bn pledge
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The World Bank promises to donate a record $3.5bn to the world's poorest countries as it cuts the charges on its loans.
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Ecuador wants $3.5 billion ... or else the killing begins.
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The United Nations appealed to the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the money targeted at Africa.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has pledged more than $8.8 billion in aid, financing and energy funding in Latin America and the Caribbean so far in 2007. Bandes is a Venezuelan state development bank. Below is a list of pledges sorted by type.
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Donors pledged $9.7 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a fund-raising conference in Berlin, well short of the $15 billion to $18 billion the fund had hoped to raise.
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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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The World Bank said on Wednesday it will lend Peru &#36;5 million to help preserve the country's best-known cultural sites, including Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
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Donor countries promised nearly $10 billion to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over the next three years at a meeting on Thursday.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved 126.3 million US dollars in balance of payment support to Zambia, the Ministry of Finance and National Planning said here Friday.
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The World Bank announces $180m in funds to help Africa fight malaria ahead of a US summit on the disease.
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Sir Richard BransonÂs pledge, estimated at $3 billion, appeared to be the largest individual commitment of money made to avert climate change.
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The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $6.5 million loan to prevent further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Uruguay and establish a system for tracking livestock to keep the country free of the virus.
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Kofi Annan gently prodded world leaders to follow through on their aid pledges, which now total more than $3 billion.
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World donors pledged $500 million in aid for Palestinians on Friday, including $55 million for a U.N. emergency appeal for humanitarian help, organizers said.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown pledged over 2.0 billion pounds (2.9 million euros, 3.7 million dollars) to help eradicate poverty in the developing world and give a brighter future for millions of children.
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Virgin boss Richard Branson has pledged to donate $3bn (Â£1.6bn) to fight global warning.
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UNITED NATIONS -- In the three weeks since the Indian Ocean tsunami ripped up coastlines in Asia and Africa, the United Nations has credited more than 40 governments, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank with unprecedented pledges of assistance valued at nearly $4 billion.