World Bank Own Evaluation Group Slams "Doing Business" Report.

M2 Presswire;  June 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......June 2008-ITUC: World Bank Own Evaluation Group Slams Doing Business Report(C)1994-20...critical of the World Bank's own publication Doing Business, the ITUC has...worldwide, the World Bank should formally...using Doing Business to formulate...

The real scandal at the World Bank ; EDITORIAL & OPINION

The Independent - London;  April 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......any more. Why? The World Bank threatened to refuse...and international business, unless it stopped...considered a scandal, but business as usual? These...accurate summary of the World Bank's effect on the...development. No: the World Bank pursues the ...

Anti-apartheid tactics could break World Bank stranglehold.(Dispatches)

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  April 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ......problem, and the World Bank put it there. She...more. Why? The World Bank threatened to refuse...and international business, unless it stopped...community. The World Bank ordered his government...a scandal, but business as usual? These...development. No, the ...

World Bank publication promotes elimination of worker protection.

M2 Presswire;  September 5, 2006 ;     685 words ......members of the ILO. The World Bank's online Doing Business database explains...editions of Doing Business have been used in World Bank and IMF country-level...cases of the IMF and World Bank's use of Doing Business to remove workers...

World Development Sources database of reports, studies available from The...

Information Today;  June 1, 1998 ;     417 words ......distributor's Webmaster first registers with the World Bank and then creates special links to the WDS repository...then use the distributor's Web site to access World Bank documents. Second, through a license agreement, an information distributor can become a VAD for World Bank ...

Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?(study produced by the World...

Journal of Development Studies;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......effective, again concluding on an optimistic note (World Bank, Africa's Adjustment and Growth in the 1980s, Washington, DC: World Bank, 1989 and World Bank, Adjustment in Africa: Reforms Results and the Road Ahead, Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994). Since then, t here ...

COLUMN: Wolfowitz must leave World Bank

University Wire;  April 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Wolfowitz no longer deserves to be president of the World Bank, assuming he was qualified to begin with, is...upon his appointment to the presidency of the World Bank, that his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, would not be...during Wolfowitz's tenure as president of the World Bank. However, ...

World Bank doesn't merit taxpayer funds.(Column)

Insight on the News;  July 3, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Larry Summers, a former chief economist at the World Bank, acknowledged these long-standing problems when...released in a timely fashion, as typified by the World Bank's $368 million loan project in Mexico. Intended...to information requests from the public, the World Bank withheld ...

World Bank welcomes Swedish District Court decision on bribery case;...

M2 Presswire;  January 14, 2004 ;     384 words ......verdict should serve as a clear warning that the World Bank is strongly committed to fighting fraud and corruption...since the allegations were first reported to the World Bank's Fraud and Corruption Hotline in 1999. In 2000, the World Bank terminated the employment of three of its ...

GLOBAL POVERTY AND THE WORLD BANK:DAVID BECKMANN

Congressional Testimony;  May 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......this great liberation. The effectiveness of the World Bank is of life and death importance to many struggling...of us. I have a generally positive view of the World Bank, and this view has been formed through 30 years...experience with the Bank. I served on the staff of the World ...

CORRUPTION: WATCHDOG GROUP BLOWS WHISTLE ON WORLD BANK

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  February 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the multilateral development banks (MDBs), the World Bank tends to set the tone for standards, policies...Development, Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank Group. Internal safeguard policies are important because the World Bank, like other international organizations, ...

WORLD BANK/EASTERN EUROPE: RAFT OF FINANCING MEASURES APPROVED.

Europe-East;  June 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......level of the customer. Since Lithuania joined the World Bank in 1992, commitments total approximately USUSD473...trade/transport facilitation and AIDS. The World Bank approved on June 10 a USUSD7.21 million equivalent...19 million from the Moldovan Government. The World Bank credit ...

A Polite Encounter Outside World Bank; Anti-Globalization Activists Return

The Washington Post;  April 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......International Monetary Fund and World Bank in downtown Washington...000 "birthday" cards to World Bank headquarters. Unlike previous...discussion with IMF and World Bank representatives. D.C. police officers guarded the World Bank's entrance near 18th Street...two ...

World Bank President visits Turkey.

M2 Presswire;  May 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-31 May 2000-WORLD BANK: World Bank President visits Turkey (C)1994-20...LTD RDATE:27052000 Ankara -- World Bank Group President James D. Wolfensohn...accompanied by Johannes Linn, World Bank's Vice President for Europe and...Executive Director for Turkey at ...

World Bank ignores its own advice.(OPINION)

The Christian Science Monitor;  August 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ......institutions. US taxpayers' contributions to the World Bank are supposed to constitute international development...happened: After years of pressure to make the World Bank more accountable for its investments, the bank...in Prague in 2000 to undertake a review of the World Bank's ...