Robert Zoellick

World Bank Board: Time to Step Up for an Open and Transparent Selection Process for the Next Bank President

Sunil Chacko | Posted 01.10.2012 | Business

Read More: Christine Lagarde, Senator Mark Kirk, Robert Zoellick, Development Committee, Ian Solomon, World Bank Board, World Bank, World Bank President, Business News

The next president of the World Bank ought to be selected carefully and in an open and transparent manner. It is January now and the next president should be selected before June 30 when Robert Zoellick's term ends.

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World Bank To Recommend Chinese Financial Reforms

Reuters | Posted 01.08.2012 | Business

Read More: Video, China Reform, World Chinese Reform, Robert Zoellick, Chinese Financial Reform, World Bank China, Robert Zoellick China, Reuters, Business News

By Mark Felsenthal CHICAGO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The World Bank will recommend reforms to China's domestic financial system as part of b...

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Paul Krugman: 50 Percent Chance Global Economy Will Enter Recession

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.09.2011 | Business

Read More: President Obama Jobs Plan, Global Recession, Robert Zoellick, Double-Dip Recession, President Barack Obama, Bloomberg Television, New York Times, Economic Recovery, Paul Krugman, Michael Spence, Business News

Even though Obama's jobs plan is "bolder and better" than Paul Krugman expected, the Nobel-Prize winning economist still told Bloomberg Television on ...

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The Development Agenda and the World Bank

Vinod Thomas | Posted 10.12.2011 | World

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Robert Zoellick, Lending, International Development, Agriculture, World Bank, World News

During the past two years of the financial crisis, the World Bank has been a global player. The challenge now is to connect global and country actions, harness innovation across a broad front, and promote a development path that is more sustainable.

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World Bank Chief: U.S. 'Playing With Fire' In Debt Ceiling Debate

Posted 09.28.2011 | Business

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Robert Zoellick, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, World Bank, Debt Limit, US Debt, Us, Us Default, Barack Obama, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON (Lesley Wroughton) - The United States is courting calamity with the continuing stalemate in Congress over raising the country's debt l...

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Food: America's 21st Century Manifest Destiny?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.19.2011 | World

Read More: Africa Food Crisis, World Food Program, Energy, Midwest, Politics, World Population, Farmland, World-Food-Shortages, Robert Zoellick, Grains, Opec, World Bank, Green, Business, Russian Wheat Embargo, World News

Food offers this nation the opportunity not only to reconnect once again with its agricultural roots, but to assume a role of visionary leadership.

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State Department: Hillary Clinton World Bank Report Is Untrue

AP | Posted 08.09.2011 | World

Read More: Hillary Clinton World Bank, Hillary Clinton, Robert Zoellick, Department of State, Barack Obama, State Department, World Bank, World News

WASHINGTON — The State Department shot down a report Thursday that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been in discussions with the Wh...

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Brazil´s Biofuel Drama Goes Global

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.18.2011 | World

Brazil's biofuel drama is a reminder that solutions packaged in green wrappers fail to scale with billions facing starvation in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

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The Urgency of Curbing Global Food Price Volatility

Tom Arnold | Posted 06.19.2011 | World

Read More: Global Poor, High Food Prices, Food Prices, World Bank, Robert Zoellick, Price Volatility, Food Crisis, Food Price Volatility, Scaling Up Nutrition, World News

There is no simple solution to the food crisis. What's needed is a combination of carefully chosen and calibrated short and long term measures.

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World Bank: We Must Rethink Our Role In The Middle East

Reuters | Lesley Wroughton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Arab Issues, Libya, North Africa, Yemen, Robert Zoellick, Tunisia, Middle East, Egypt, World Bank, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank is rethinking its role in the Middle East and North Africa to tackle economic and social problems that spark...

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Fool's Gold: The World's Love Affair With The Metal Is Dangerous

The Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Robert Zoellick Gold Standard, Gold Standard, Robert Zoellick, Robert Zoellick Gold, World Bank Gold, World Gold Price, World Bank, Gold, World Bank Gold Standard, World News

Gold has been having a great run lately. On Nov. 9, it closed at a record high of $1409.80 per ounce. It's being hoarded as the only safe bet in a wor...

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The World Bank Steps in to Save the Day??

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Undp, Cilmate Fund, Robert Zoellick, Developing Countries, World Bank, Green, Cop 16, Clean Energy, Rising Sea Level, Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, Environment, Unfccc, Vilsack, Aosis, Denmark, Global Warming, Green News

Cancún, Mexico - As climate change increases, the World Bank is stepping up its funding for developing nations. On the agenda at this year's COP 16, ...

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Senator Mark Kirk, World Banker

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Senator Mark Kirk, Senator Leahy, Toronto, Senator McConnell, President Obama, Robert Zoellick, Rep. Pelosi, Seoul, g20, World Bank, Senator Lugar, Under Secretary Lael Brainard, Secretary Geithner, Congress, Politics News

Senator Mark Kirk, who won President Obama's Senate seat, is the only Senator who has been on the staff of the World Bank Group. In the broadcasted Q...

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World Bank Puts A Price On Nature

Yahoo! News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Ecosystem World Bank, Value of Nature, World Bank, World Bank Nature, World Bank Ecosystem, Nature, Value on Nature, Robert Zoellick, Price on Nature, Price of Nature, Nature World Bank, Green News

The World Bank on Thursday launched a program to help nations put a value on nature just like GDP in a bid to stop the destruction of forests, wetland...

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World Development Report 2011 Launches New Website

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Open Data, Daniel Maree, Conflict, World Bank, wdr2011, Security, Development, World News, World News

This post originally appeared on the World Bank's Conflict & Development Blog on October 14, 2010. Esabel Khoury co-authored this post. After months ...

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Dancing With Davos: The World Bank and the IMF

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

The good guys are the free marketeers who reform, redesign and rebuild civilization at the World Economic Forum.

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Haiti Offers Opportunity to Begin New Era for U.S. Foreign Assistance

Samuel A. Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

The end goal should be a new era for foreign assistance; one that does not rely on Cold War-era rationales. Still, though, the window to enact lasting change is closing.

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Third World Term Should Be Retired, Says World Bank Head

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Geopolitics, Third World Term, Third World Countries, Robert Zoellick, Third World, World Bank, World News

WASHINGTON — The head of the World Bank says it is time to stop using the term "Third World" to refer to developing countries and recognize they...

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Haiti Promised Nearly $10 Billion for Radical Change

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: France, Bill Clinton, Robert Zoellick, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Venezuela, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, United Nations, Michele Montas, Bernard Kouchner, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Canada, European Union, Brazil, Haitiblog, World News

At a meeting at the UN, more than 100 delegations pledged a total of $5.3 billion over the next 18 months and another $4.6 billion for the years that follow to aid Haiti.

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Senator Bayh's Long Bye Bye

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, G.a.O., Paul Wolfowitz, President George W. Bush, Senator Bayh, World Bank, Politics News

Sill Senator Bayh re-introduce his Bayh Amendment or just disappear into the night with that whole sorry episode forever as an albatross around his proverbial neck?

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Lula Must Not Undermine Brazil's Chance to Be the Next "Indispensable Nation"

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Nuclear Security Summit, United Nations, World Bank, Imf, Julia Sweig, Obama, South America, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, UN Security Council, David Rothkopf, China, Nuclear Diplomacy, Brazil, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ban Ki Moon, Nuclear Deterrence, Global Governance, Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Russia, Parag Khanna, India, Antonio Patriota, Luiz inácio Lula Da Silva, President Lula, Brics, Ibsa, Mohammed ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, World News

As it sits at a clear breakout point in its global ascendance -- and just before President Lula's upcoming trip to Tehran -- Brazil faces fundamental choices about the type of nation it wants to be.

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Africa's Seat at the Table

President Abdoulaye Wade | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: G-20 Summit, Governance, President Barack Obama, Malaria, Reform, G-20, Accra Speech, World Bank, g20, Senegal, Food Shortage, Robert Zoellick, Senegal President, United Nations General Assembly, Aids, President Abdoulaye Wade, World News

Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.

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How Sweet It Is... Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels China's Recovery

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Brazil, Sugar Ethanol, Obama, Opec, Monroe Doctrine, Wal-Mart, Big Oil, Jim Owens, Agribusiness, Wto, Robert Zoellick, Ethanol, Caterpillar, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, China, Hugo Chavez, Petrobras, Imf, Energy, World News

Ethanol trade has helped make China Brazil's top trade partner, replacing Uncle Sam, who had been top dog ever since Herbert Hoover was in the White House.

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World Bank: the Incredible Shrinking Economy

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Third World Countries, Financial Crisis, Robert Zoellick, Global Economy, World Bank, Economy, World News

More and more, the danger of a rerun of the 1930s, in which extremist movements profit from financial depression, looms as a real prospect.

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Solving the Global Food Crisis: The Case for a "Poverty Czar"

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Oecd, Global Poverty, Robert Zoellick, Chatham House, John Podesta, Food Crisis, United Nations, World Bank, Richard Holbrooke, George MItchell, Jacques Diouf, Nicholas Kristof, Paul Krugman, Hillary Clinton, Oxfam, Barack Obama, Gates Foundation, India, Poverty, Biofuels, Afghanistan, Pakistan, US Aid, Haiti Poverty, Middle East, Us Aid to Pakistan, Haiti, Food, Hunger in the United States, China, World News

Addressing global poverty at its roots means recognizing that the most significant factors driving up food costs are the diversion of crops to biofuels and the growing demand for meat.

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