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The World Bank Annual Report 2003: Financial statements and ...

The World Bank Annual Report 2003: Financial statements and ...

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... Financial Reporting Michael Ochieng, Financial Reporting and Analysis Division, World Bank Philip A. Birkelbach, Financial Reporting and Analysis Division, World Bank Production Mark Ingebretsen, Office of the Publisher, External Affairs, ...
The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

Ngaire Woods

The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank?
10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank

10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank

Kevin Danaher

Kevin Danaher. Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2001). Empty Promises: The IMF, the World Bank, and the Planned Failures ...
Target IBPS Bank PO/ MT Preliminary & Main Exams 20 Practice ...

Target IBPS Bank PO/ MT Preliminary & Main Exams 20 Practice ...

Disha Experts

(a) Suman Panda (b) Debraj Bhattacharya (c) Swati Bose (d) Chandres Banerjee (e) None of these Which of the following is NOT a public sector bank? (a) Corporation Bank (b) United Bank of India (c) Vijaya Bank (d) Bank of Maharashtra (e) ...
Reinventing the World Bank

Reinventing the World Bank

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Written by leading North American and British scholars, this book offers a critical examination of the World Bank.
When Reality Contradicts Rhetoric: World Bank Lending ...

When Reality Contradicts Rhetoric: World Bank Lending ...

Jean-Germain Gros

19. Peter Schraeder, African Politics and Society, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. 20. Rober Ayres, 'Breaking the Bank', Foreign Policy 43 (Summer, 1981), p. 11. 21. Robert McNamara, The McNamara Years at the World Bank: Major Policy  ...
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social ...

Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social ...

Michael Goldman

A piercing, first-hand analysis of the World Bank, one of the most powerful actors in today's global economy.
50 Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the ...

50 Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the ...

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As the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) celebrate fifty years of economic dominion over the Third World, this reader brings the best progressive authors together to critique these two main proponents of neo-liberalism. ...
Japan Company Handbook: Second section

Japan Company Handbook: Second section

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... Mizuho Corporate Bank (4.3), Employees' Stockholding (2.6), Fukushima Bank (1 .9), Shinsei Bank (1 .8), Nichido F.& M.lns. (1 .8), Daito Bank (1 .6), Aozora Bank (1 .5), Akira Takahashi (1.4), Kenji Hasegawa (1.2), Yamagata Kyoritsu Co.
World Bank

World Bank

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multilateral assistance system, the author develops a comprehensive concept of control and an explanatory framework for certain trends within the United States which affect World Bank decision-making, including the ascendancy of the ...
The World Bank: Its First Half Century

The World Bank: Its First Half Century

Devesh Kapur

By special arrangement, the authors have had wide-ranging access to confidential documents at the World Bank, making this work a unique source of information on the internal workings of this critical institution.
The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

Ngaire Woods

But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with.
World Bank Literature

World Bank Literature

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As asserted in this major work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new global realities.
assessing asset indices

assessing asset indices

Deon Filmer

Coady, David , Margaret Grosh, and John Hoddinott. 2004. “Targeting of transfers in developing countries: review of lessons and experience.” Regional and Sectoral Studies Series. The World Bank. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Das, Jishnu ...
Banking on the Poor: The World Bank and World Poverty

Banking on the Poor: The World Bank and World Poverty

Robert L. Ayres

Banking on the Poor traces the evolution of Robert McNamara's poverty-oriented redirections at the World Bank from 1968 to 1981.
Varieties of Monetary Reforms: Lessons and Experiences on ...

Varieties of Monetary Reforms: Lessons and Experiences on ...

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46, 6000 Frankfurt, Germany Haizhou Huang Indiana University, Graduate School of Business Bloomington, IN USA 47405 Miguel A. Kiguel The World Bank 1818 H Street N.W. Washington, D.C. USA 20433 Nissan Liviatan The World Bank ...
Indirect Economic Impacts of Dams: Case Studies from India, ...

Indirect Economic Impacts of Dams: Case Studies from India, ...

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Sebastian Mallaby has described (Sebastian Mallaby, 2004) the toxic effects of this reality on the World Bank and the broader process of development. Jim Wolfensohn assumed the Presidency of the World Bank at the height of the red- green ...
China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society

China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society

Development Research Center of the State Council

Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society Development Research Center of the State Council, The World Bank. Sen Gong (DRC) and Philip O' Keefe (World Bank) and comprising Dewen Wang (World Bank) and Liejun Wang  ...
Bank 3.0: Why banking is no longer somewhere you go, but ...

Bank 3.0: Why banking is no longer somewhere you go, but ...

Brett King

The first edition of BANK 2.0 took the financial services world by storm and became synonymous with disruptive customer behaviour, technology shift and new banking models.
Asia's new crisis: renewal through total ethical management

Asia's new crisis: renewal through total ethical management

Frank-Jürgen Richter

In the same year that the UIA was opened, the Malaysian Islamic Bank (Bank Islam Malaysia) was launched by the government (on 1 July 1983).1- Bank Islam became the first bank in the country to offer regular 9 Shanti Nair. 1997, p. 36.
The Thin Green Line: World Bank Leverage and Forest Policy ...

The Thin Green Line: World Bank Leverage and Forest Policy ...

Colin Filer

World Bank Leverage and Forest Policy Reform in Papua New Guinea Colin Filer , Navroz K. Dubash, Kalit Kilyali. NRI MONOGRAPH 37 THE THIN GREEN LINE WORLD BANK LEVERAGE AND FOREST POLICY REFORM IN PAPUA NEW ...
The Magazine of Bank Administration

The Magazine of Bank Administration

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INDIANA Peoples Trust Bank, Fort Wayne: GORDON JOHNSON has been promoted to senior vice president. KANSAS First National Bank, Winfield: ED JAVIS has been named cashier. MARYLAND Frederick County National Bank, Frederick: ...
How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?

How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?

Stefano Paternostro

Stefano Paternostro, Anand Rajaram and Erwin R. Tiongson PRMPR and PRMPS The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3555, March 2005 The Policy Research Working  ...
Returns to Education in the Economic Transition: A ...

Returns to Education in the Economic Transition: A ...

Stefano Paternostro

Returns to Education in the Economic Transition: A Systematic Assessment Using Comparable Data1 Luca Flabbi Georgetown University and IZA Stefano Paternostro World Bank Erwin R. Tiongson World Bank Abstract This paper examines ...
The World Bank Research Program 2004: Abstracts of Current ...

The World Bank Research Program 2004: Abstracts of Current ...

World Bank

Fiszbein, Ariel, and Paula Ines Giovagnoli. 2004. “Hambre en la Argentina.” Desarrollo Económico 43(172): 637–56. Fiszbein, Ariel, Paula Ines Giovagnoli, and Isidro Aduriz. 2003. “The Argentine Crisis and Its Impact on Household Welfare.
Closing a Failed Bank: Resolution Practices and Procedures

Closing a Failed Bank: Resolution Practices and Procedures

Mr. David C. Parker

This manual addresses problem bank resolution from the time a bank is identified as being in financial trouble through intervention to liquidation.
Eradication of poverty and empowerment of the poor

Eradication of poverty and empowerment of the poor

Amal Raj Chellakan

David Beckmann, a staff member of the World Bank observes that the Bank is a powerful secular institution but its objectives are ethical: economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. It reemphasises its policy and ...
World Bank Research Program: abstracts of current studies

World Bank Research Program: abstracts of current studies

World Bank

Fiszbein, Ariel, and Paula Ines Giovagnoli. 2004. "Hambre en la Argentina." Desarrollo Econdmico 43(172): 637-56. Fiszbein, Ariel, Paula Ines Giovagnoli, and Isidro Aduriz. 2003. "The Argentine Crisis and Its Impact on Household Welfare.
Working Together for a Change: Government, Business, and ...

Working Together for a Change: Government, Business, and ...

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Government, Business, and Civic Partnerships for Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean Ariel Fiszbein, Pamela Lowden. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development /THE WORLD BANK 1818 H Street, N.W. ...
Welfare economics and growing inequalities in south asia

Welfare economics and growing inequalities in south asia

Ashok Chandra Shukla

Ashok Chandra Shukla. Source: The World Bank, The Little Data Book ( Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2000). ISL A.C. Shukla. MALDIVES SRI LANKA i i 1 Economy 1990 1997 1998 1990 1997 1998 GDP ($ millions) 146 342 368 8,032 ...

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