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• Search Inside: You’ve just written a book called Evaluating ...

  Published: October 3, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Books, Funny Pictures, Search Inside, Vaginas, World Bank

  You’ve just written a book called Evaluating a Decade of World Bank Gender Policy: 1990-99. Problem: how to get people to read something called Evaluating a Decade of World Bank Gender Policy:...

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• Search Inside: You’ve just written a book called Evaluating ...

  Published: October 3, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Books, Funny Pictures, Search Inside, Vaginas, World Bank

  You’ve just written a book called Evaluating a Decade of World Bank Gender Policy: 1990-99. Problem: how to get people to read something called Evaluating a Decade of World Bank Gender Policy: 1990-99? Solution: subliminal cover photography. [Amazon]

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• The Gathering NBN-ZTE Storm

  Published: October 4, 2007, 9:37 pm

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Igos, Politics, Southeast Asia, Benjamin Abalos, China, Corruption, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Gma, Hu Jintao, Imf, Nbn Zte, Philippines, Prc, World Bank

  I can find three reasons why the NBN National Broadband Network)-ZTE ( Zhong Xing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation) scandal in the Philippines is so compelling. Yesterday’s Inquirer editorial, comparing NBN-ZTE to America’s Watergate, almost makes the question obligatory. Philippines’ President Gloria

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• Bank Plans Probe of HIV Tests In India

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bank, Plans, Probe, Hiv, Tests, India, Kunal Saha, National Aids Control Organization, Beatrice Edwards, Graeme Wheeler, The World Bank Group, Ohio, South Asia, Washington Dc

  World Bank officials will hire two independent consultants to investigate complaints about the reliability of HIV test kits in India, they said this week in response to allegations from a doctor who sounded alarms about faulty products.

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• Kill Georgetown: Georgetown Has Money? We Should Pillage Georgetown

  Published: October 18, 2007, 5:14 pm

  Tags: Imf, Kill Georgetown, October Rebellion, World Bank

  A band of roving progressive pirates have planned a series of events from today through Sunday to “confront Neoliberalism in Washington.” Clearly displaced from all liberal contexts...

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• Zoellick's Next Challenge Is Redefining Bank's Role

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Zoellick S, Next, Challenge, Redefining, Bank S, Role, Robert Zoellick, The World Bank Group, Paul Wolfowitz, China, United States, Adam Lerrick, Elizabeth Stuart, India, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Africa, Brazil, Carnegie Mellon University, International Development Associa

  The last time the World Bank had one of its semiannual meetings, hundreds of staff members were openly protesting their boss, the controversial Paul D. Wolfowitz.

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• Kill Georgetown: Georgetown Has Money? We Should Pillage Georgetown

  Published: October 18, 2007, 5:14 pm

  Tags: Imf, Kill Georgetown, October Rebellion, World Bank

  of pissing off the IMF and World Bank as much as possible. This weekend’s events will overlap with the IMF and World Bank’s annual meetings, where officials will be devising evil Ponzi schemes to fuck over Uruguay, redefining foreign AIDS relief as “send rat poison to Africa” and championing usury over debt amnesty. The

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• Annual World Bank, IMF Meetings Open Under Economic Cloud

  Published: October 20, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: World, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Economy

  Member nations of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will open their annual meeting in Washington Saturday in the shadow of a worldwide economic slowdown.

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• Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa to Grow Steadily, IMF Says

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Economies, Sub Saharan, Africa, Grow, Steadily, Imf, Says, International Monetary Fund, The World Bank Group, Robert Zoellick, Nigeria, Shamsuddeen Usman, Transparency International, East Asia, Paul Volcker, Paul Wolfowitz, Raymond Fisman, Sub Saharan Africa, China

  The economies of sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the most extreme and pervasive poverty in the world, will grow at a healthy pace next year, International Monetary Fund economists said yesterday.

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• Kill Georgetown: Stupid October Rebellion Gets Bloody-ish

  Published: October 22, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Capitol Hill, Imf, Kill Georgetown, Marauders, October Rebellion, World Bank

  The Jacobin fury over the IMF and World Bank having some meetings this weekend continues! As we mentioned last week, a disorganized (but furious) band of marauders called the October coalition has...

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• Kill Georgetown: Stupid October Rebellion Gets Bloody-ish

  Published: October 22, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Capitol Hill, Imf, Kill Georgetown, Marauders, October Rebellion, World Bank

  fury over the IMF and World Bank having some meetings this weekend continues! As we mentioned last week, a disorganized (but furious) band of marauders called the October coalition has been holding protests and demonstrations since Thursday, most notably the “Disrupt Georgetown!” rally last Friday which targeted flaneuring

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• World Bank report calls for more investment in agriculture

  Published: October 24, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: World, Agricultural Development, Agriculture, Economy, Farming, Farming Industry, Global Economy, World Bank

  A renewed focus on agricultural development is critical to successfully reducing global poverty and hunger, according to a new World Bank report co-authored by economists at the University of California, Berkeley.

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• Giving Slum Children A New Sense of Class

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Giving, Slum, Children, New, Sense, Class, Neelamdevi Thakur, Shyama Chona, Ashok Agarwal, New Delhi, Sakshee Chawla, Sheela Sharma, India, The World Bank Group

  NEW DELHI -- Neelamdevi Thakur lives in a working-class slum and earns a living washing dishes in middle-class homes twice a day. In the past year, two of her five children, who attend an affluent private school, have returned home speaking words that she had never heard from her other children, who...

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• Child’s suicide shows grim face of poverty

  Published: November 9, 2007, 4:56 am

  Tags: Governance, Arroyo Administration, Gcap, Hunger, Ifpri, Mariannet Amper, Philippines, Poverty, World Bank

  THE sad tale of twelve-year-old Mariannet Amper, who committed suicide after losing hope that her family would rise out of poverty, shows the despair experienced by the country’s poor. There are 11 million Filipinos among the one billion people worldwide who live on less than $1 a day. This is the threshold defined as extreme poverty [...]

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• A Remedy for Transit Troubles Backfires in Chile, Leading Commuters to Sue

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Remedy, For, Transit, Troubles, Backfires, Chile, Leading, Commuters, Sue, Curitiba, Santiago, Colombia, Bogota, Beijing, Jaime Lerner, Michelle Bachelet, Patricio Lanfranco, Quito, Ricardo Lagos, Rosana Ramirez, South America, Chile, The World Bank Group

  SANTIAGO, Chile -- Hardly anyone argued with the overall goal: relieve the transit woes of another growing Latin American city by remodeling the local bus system to complement a recently expanded subway system.

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