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World Bank to help India investment
2013-10-10 06:03:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm, unveils plans to raise $1bn (630m) by selling Indian rupee-linked bonds.
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IMF, World Bank heads lend clout to climate change efforts
2013-10-08 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world's finance ministers should focus on two elements to tackle climate change: setting the "right price" on carbon emissions and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday. At a panel on the opening day of their 2013 autumn meeting, Lagarde and World Bank Group President Jim Young Kim said climate change was a priority for their lending institutions, the first time the two had addressed the issue together in public. Lagarde said...
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World Bank cuts East Asia outlook
2013-10-07 12:34:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The World Bank cuts its 2013 economic growth forecast for East Asia's developing countries, citing China's slowdown and the expected end to US stimulus measures.
VIDEO: World Bank plan to end poverty
2013-10-07 12:20:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Extreme poverty is being described as "the defining moral issue of our time," by the group president of the World Bank.
World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms
2013-10-07 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Civil society groups are pressuring the World Bank to disinvest from private water companies, saying that privatising ownership and management of this natural resource has failed to improve access to clean drinking water. The World Bank is subsidising private profiteering from an essential resource by lending public money to private corporations that manage or run water utilities but have failed to improve services, says Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a Boston-based advocacy group...
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