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WORLD BANK GRANTS MEXICO 500 MILLION DOLLAR LOAN TO IMPROVE HOUSING
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Infolatina
03-05-1999
World Bank Grants Mexico 500 Million Dollar Loan to Improve Housing
MEXICO CITY,...
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The effectiveness of the World Bank's anti-corruption efforts: current legal and structural obstacles and uncertainties.
Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
; ... concerns about corruption come with many news reports this week that 20 percent of World ... Justice Eyeing Enron in Bribe Probe, CBS News, Aug. 5, 2002, available at http://www ... Takes Aim at Official Corruption, U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REP., Dec. 22, 1997, at 39 ...
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World Bank Approves 665 Million Dollars Loan to India, XINHUA
Xinhua (China)
; 00-00-0000 NEW DELHI, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank Friday approved 665 million U.S. dollars in loans for four projects in India aimed at reducing poverty and improving transport system. The World Bank approved a total amount of 350 million dollars for two projects to support economic reforms
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World Bank to disburse 300 mln USD loan to Indonesia, XINHUA
Xinhua (China)
; ... Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) to assist the reform program outlined in the White Paper, the official was quoted by the state news agency Antara as saying. He said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is also expected to disburse 100 million US dollars out of ...
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World Bank Provides 500 Mln Dollar Loan to India, XINHUA
Xinhua (China)
; Xinhua (China) 05-19-2000 NEW DELHI, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank Friday sanctioned a 500 million U.S. dollar loan to India for four major projects including 150 million dollars for power sector restructuring in Uttar Pradesh. Four agreements were signed by World Bank country director Edwin
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Who's Minding the BANK?(evaluation of the World Bank management)
Foreign Policy
; The World Bank is in crisis, struggling to devise a formula for development as critics slam it for incompetence, inefficiency, and irrelevance. Who to blame? Try bank President Jim Wolfensohn, whose personal failings and misguided policies have muddled the bank's mission and pushed its best staff
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Philippines gets additional World Bank loan for land reform, XINHUA
Xinhua (China)
; 00-00-0000 MANILA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government and the World Bank signed Wednesday a 50-million-US dollar loan agreement to support the government's land reform project, the bank said Thursday. The project is expected to enhance the life quality of some 70, 000 rural households in
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Education as aided by the World Bank: A critical analysis of post-independence projects in Nigeria
Journal of Third World Studies
; INTRODUCTION The role of the World Bank in the development of education in Nigeria dates back to 1953 when the MacPherson Constitution (1951) and the colonial Education Act Number 17 of 1952 were in operation. According to the 1951 Constitution, financing of primary education was to he the job of
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The World Bank at work.
Saturday Evening Post
; THE WORLD BANK AT WORK It's got the right name-- World. The name is a proper reflection of the size and reach of a financial institution with assets comparable to Citibank or Bank of America. On an international scale, the World Bank, AAA rated by Moody's, makes loans, earns a profit, and borrows
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World Bank chief vows to do more with less from U.S.(World)
The Washington Times
; ... lican-led Congress. We are moving from a culture of approving loans to a culture of effectiveness, Mr. Wolfensohn said at a news conference for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund semiannual meeting. We have a total commitment to effectiveness ...
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Community monitoring of integrated pest management versus conventional pesticide use in a World Bank project in Indonesia
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
; Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) collaborated with a local Indonesian nongovernmental organization (NGO), Yayasan Duta Awam (YDA), in monitoring impacts of the World Bank-financed Integrated Swamps Development Project (ISDP). This paper reports the results of the community-based
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