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The World Bank (WB) & The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
2008-08-26 01:19:00 John Pilger..
By: Secret-Teachings
Ghana: 2008 budget receives US$145 million support from the World Bank
2008-06-04 12:42:00 Ghana?s 2008 budget receives US$145 million support from the World Bank: Poverty Reduction, Food and Agriculture, Energy, Decentralization,Natural Resource and Environmental Governance (including EITI++),and Donor Harmonization to get more boost. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE-/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0-,,contentMDK:21789 063~menuPK:258658~pagePK:286510-6~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644-,00.html
The World Bank Talks Up a Soft Landing
2008-02-18 07:45:00 Bringing its usual reasoned calm to the issue of China’s economic direction, the World Bank just issued a report that signals continued good times for 3rd party recruitment companies, with some possible relief for hiring departments, and an ongoing challenge in retention. The World Bank never uses the expression soft landing but that is essentially what they are suggesting. This is good for ...
By: Talent in China
China in the World (Bank)
2008-02-06 10:19:00 China?s internationalisation and integration in to the world economy (not to mention big banks and mining companies ? more on which will follow soon) continues apace. The latest news is that Justin Lin Yifu (who was recently speaking in London) has been appointed as the World bank?s new Chief Economist. Forbes reports: ?For the first time, ...
Jamaica urged to stop anti-gay crime, New airport in Portland, The World Ba
2008-02-02 22:38:00 The human rights organization, Human Rights Watch has officially put Jamaica on notice, again. The organization has urged Jamaica to put a stop to the rampant anti-gay violence that is increasing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: YawdFromAbroad
China to Play a Greater Role as Donor at the World Bank
2007-12-24 09:14:00 Source: World Bank works with Chinese on Africa; China to Play Greater Role in World Bank World Bank President Robert Zoellick visited Li Ruogu, the chairman of the Chinese Export-Import Bank to discuss the possibility of conducting joint development projects in the future. The visit also addressed international concerns about Chinese lending in Africa. China has distinguished itself from other donors by not attaching conditionalities to its loans; however, it has yet to provide guarantees of debt forgiveness, either.Zoellick’s visit reflects the change in the World Bank’s approach to China. The Bank is now working to accommodate China as it transitions from recipient to donor country. As Zoellick noted at his meeting with Li, China has recently made donations to the International Development Association at the World Bank. The Bank is now seeking to recruit more Chinese staff.
German Documentary Reveals the Costs of Privatization
2007-09-10 17:59:00 A powerful new documentary examining the effects of privatization has emerged from Germany. THE BIG SELLOUT weaves a story of mismanagement, neocolonialism, suffering and resistance from four separate corners of the globe. In the film we meet four central characters, beginning with Simon, a British train driver. Simon clearly articulates the consequences of the systematic dismantling of what was once Europe?s best public transportation system. Since Thatcher privatized the rail systems, wages have dropped, employment has dropped, service has denigrated, and no one wants to take responsibility for the rail lines (until recently, the government has stepped in and re-nationalized that one aspect sheerly out of safety concerns and a massive PR disaster after several deaths from rail collisions). Simon is a force for public service and organized labour, and brings the sometimes philosophically lofty discussions of ?common good? down to earth. We meet Miranda, a Phillipine mother whose 1...
The World Bank is Killing Thousands of People
2007-07-27 02:27:00 Source: The Independent While the world's press has been fixated on the teeny-weeny scandal over whether the World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz helped to get his girlfriend a $300,000-a-year gig next door, they have been ignoring the rancid stench of a far bigger scandal wafting from Wolfie's Washington offices. This slo-mo scandal isn't about apparent petty corruption in DC. It's about how Wolfowitz's World Bank is killing thousands of the poorest people in the world, and knowingly worsening our worst crisis - global warming - every day. Let's start with the victims. Meet Hawa Amadu, 70-something, living in the muddy slums of Accra, the capital of Ghana, and trying to raise her grandkids as best she can. Hawa has a problem - a massive problem - and the World Bank put it there. She can't afford water or electricity any more. Why? The World Bank threatened to refuse to lend any more money to her government, which would effectively make it a leper to governmental donors...
Send in the troops, the ballot boxes, and the World Bank
2007-07-06 01:11:00 Michael J. Gerson, writing in The Washington Post, accurately describes Tony Blair's foreign policy and its liberal intentions:More than that of any other world leader, Blair’s foreign policy approach is a rigorous, logical argument. Like advancements in communications and the global economy, political challenges, Blair contends, have “immediate impact, an ability to cross frontiers.†Irresponsible and failing states become bases of operation for terrorist, crime and drug syndicates. This chaos is tamed, in his view, by promoting economic development, treating killer diseases, fighting global warming and achieving peace in the Middle East — an agenda of exhausting idealism. “Justice,†he says, “is the thing that is most powerful in its appeal to people.â€But Blair’s liberalism not only purrs, it bites. When distant chaos grows too intense and threatening, Blair has advocated military interventions from Kosovo to Sierra Leone to Afghanistan to Iraq.His muscular inte...
By: Don't trip up
The World Bank Launched a Workshop for Independent External Auditors
2007-06-25 02:00:00 AMMAN-- The World Bank held a training workshop on June 18, 2007 ...
By: TAGorg
Cambodian news: The PM?s pissed off, the World Bank wires the place and the
2007-06-08 14:53:00 I’m starting out this week’s wrap of the news from Cambodia with three links to one of my pro blogs where I posted an interview with Kari Grady Grossman, author of “Bones That Float: A Story of Adopting Cambodia”. Kari was gracious and loquacious, and the interview, like the woman and the book, is interesting ...
The World Bank must be returned to the world
2007-06-06 03:06:00 Writes — Dr. Adil Najam Mr Paul Wolfowitz, the outgoing World Bank president, has been forced to resign in disgrace. Technically, his resignation comes because of ‘ethical lapses’... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bush Sends Another Neocon to Head the World Bank
2007-05-31 22:04:00 by- Suzie-Q @ 1:05 PM MST © 2007 Stephen Pitt The man who tried to equate resistance to corporate globalization with the terrorism of al Qaeda now takes over the World Bank following Paul Wolfowitz’s scandal-ridden tenure. Nine days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I opened up The Washington Post and stared right into ...
By: Suzie-Q
George W. Bush names next president of the World Bank?
2007-05-30 21:50:00 The controversy which had caused a staff revolt and strained U.S. relations with Europeans and other countries had led calls for Wolfowitz to resign from the poverty-fighting institution. The president said Zoellick has a long career in diplomacy that has prepared him well for the job. "Bob Zoellick is deeply committed to this cause," the president said. In announcing the choice of Zoellick, Bush also had praise for Wolfowitz's performance as head of the bank. read more
By: Dangerous News.
Résumé of Doom
2007-05-20 05:52:00 By Maureen DowdThe New York TimesPaul Wolfowitz may be out of a job soon, but think of what an amazing résumé he?ll be shopping around: Work Experience President of World Bank: 2005-2007 Responsibilities: Reining in European lefties, raining tax-free money on Arab girlfriend, and giving anti-corruption efforts a bad name. Achievements: Paralyzed the international lending apparatus to the point where small countries had to max out their Visa cards to pay for malaria medicine. Learned the traditions of many cultures, including those of Turkey, where you apparently are not supposed to take off your shoes at mosques to reveal socks so full of holes that both big toes poke blasphemously through. Deputy Secretary of Defense for President George W. Bush: 2001-2005 Responsibility: Starting a war. Achievements: Mismanaged the world?s most powerful army. Shattered the system of international diplomacy that kept the peace for 50 years. Undermined the credibility of American intelligence opera...
Wolfowitz to quit the World Bank
2007-05-18 00:39:00 Paul Wolfowitz is to quit as head of the World Bank after a bitter promotion row involving his partner. The global lending body said Mr Wolfowitz would step down on 30 June and that it would begin the search for a successor immediately.
By: Get rich
The World Bank Report shows Apartheid established by Israel in Palestine
2007-05-11 01:31:00 The latest World Bank report shows that Israel has established an Apartheid System in Palestine and isolated nearly 50 percent of the West Bank land, Dr. Mustafa Bagrhouthi, Palestinian Minister of Information said on Wednesday.The report entitled ?The imposed restrictions on the freedom of Movement in the West Bank? which will be published today shows that Israeli has created ten cantons in the West Bank, isolated, geographically and economically. The cantons prevented the local residents and especially the farmers from reaching 50 percent of their lands and became exclusive to Israeli settlers who are illegally residing in the West Bank. Israel has destroyed the economic system in Palestine and set all the Palestinian roads under an apartheid system to benefit the illegal settlements, said Barghouthi.He added that what has been created can not be treated by measures to ease the situation in some West Bank areas, it is necessary to remove the infrastructure of the 530 perma...
By: Munaeem's Blog
AMITY SHLAES looks at "girlfriend salaries" at the World Bank.
2007-04-30 12:37:00 Author: punditAMITY SHLAES looks at "girlfriend salaries" at the World Bank. Apparently there are rather a lot of them. "In any case, the old corporate rule holds yet again: When salaries seem odd, something is out of balance -- just not always in the way you think."View Original ArticleTechnorati Tags: US, World Bank
By: Munaeem's Blog
Time For a Change at the World Bank: Nancy Birdsall, President, Center …
2007-04-14 09:05:00 Forbes - Tony Kopetchny of Center for Global Development, +1-202-247-8835/ /Web site: http://www.cgdev.org / CO: Center for Global Development; CGD ST: District of Columbia IN: FIN SU: TRD FOR POL... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Engineers Voice
Wolfowitz and the World Bank
2007-04-13 20:54:00 The current president of the World Bank and former U.S. Deputy Sec. of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz is facing an uphill fight to keep his job after the Bank?s directors promised a quick decision on his future. An investigation has discovered that Wolfowitz was personally involved in dictating the terms of promotion and pay increase for his girlfriend Shaha Riza.
Bamako Film puts the World Bank on Trial and Wins
2007-04-09 18:57:00 IntroThis past February Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako was released in the UK and North America. The film is a searing indictment against the IMF and the World Bank, shot documentary-style with real lawyers, witnesses and family members, culminating in a fictitious mock-trial where African society "legally" challenges the World Bank. The direction is exceptional, but the dialogue is unflinching in its politics, where witnesses speak of the devastating effects that 20 years of structural adjustment policy by the G8 has had on the African continent. The film launches a devastating, albeit rhetorical, blow to economic neoliberalism and the West's inability to intervene in the process of privatization. Witnesses give long speeches that connect the audience to the real lives lived in Mali - the country where the trial takes place - and to the socio-political realities of much of African society. The film is an emotionally-charged personal essay articulated by many, levied against the p...
Breaking News:Two Directors of the World Bank Million Dollars Aids Program
2007-02-23 03:57:01 Breaking News:Two Directors of the World Bank Million Dollars Aids Program in Gambia Resigned! Bombshell At Gambia’s Aids Secretariat-Two Directors Resigned In Protest Against Jammeh’s Claims For Aids Cure! ….”NASS BOSS SAIHOU CEESAY AND AISHA BALDEH CALL IT QUIT.” Gambia Gov’t Likely To Face World Bank sanctions! By Our Health Correspondent The Director of Gambia’s National Aids Secretariat Saihou Ceesay ... |
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