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The Presidential Debate and Senator Coburn as a Potential Accountability & Transparency Czar

Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senator Coburn, Accountability and Transparency, Senator McCain, Presidential Debates, World Bank, Senator Obama, Bailout Oversight, Oversight Congress, Congressional Accountability, W.H.O., Oversight Czar Coburn, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

Senator Coburn is often misunderstood and is regularly hauled over the coals by the media

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How to find the best ideas

Dennis Whittle | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Development Marketplace, Foreign Aid, Philanthropy, Globalgiving, World Bank, Google News, Google, Business News
Dennis Whittle

Ten years ago, Mari Kuraishi and I launched the first-ever Innovation Marketplace at the World Bank. The idea was that any team of staff, without reg...

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Senator McCain's Fannie Problem

Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Robert Zoellick, Senator McCain, Congressional Subpoenas, Ceo, Jim Johnson, Senator Obama, McCain Campaign, Fannie Mae, Accounting Irregularities, Immunity, Advisor, John Huntsman Jr., George W. Bush, World Bank, Barack Obama, Paul Wolfowitz, World Trade Organization, Project for a New American Century, Wto, Business News
Sunil Chacko

Zoellick would have to comply with Congressional subpoenas to explain having headed the lobbying activities for Fannie Mae.

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We Are Winning: An Interview With Battle In Seattle Director Stuart Townsend

Brad Listi | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: New Releases, WTO Riots, Third World, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Michelle Rodriguez, Presidential Election, Global Trade, Imf, Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, Seattle Riots, Stuart Townsend, Battle in Seattle, Movies, Barack Obama, Cinema, Celebrity Endorsements, Patriotism, Seattle, Brad Listi, World Trade Organization, Filmmaking, Ray Liotta, Make Trade Fair, Channing Tatum, Andre Benjamin, Charlize Theron, Wto, Home News
Brad Listi

A lot of people feel like they've lost their voice during the last eight years. This movie is a clear illustration of the fact that you do count... Things can be different. If Obama runs the country like he's run his campaign, we're in good shape.

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A "Menu" of Green Energy Opportunities

Dennis Whittle | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Globalgiving, Climate Change, Global Warming, World Bank, Green News
Dennis Whittle

Yesterday the Center for Global Development (CGD) invited me to a meeting with the World Bank to give some remarks on the Bank's forthcoming Climate C...

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Anti-Corruption Efforts Must Come First in Afghanistan

Lisa Gans | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Foreign Aid, United Nations, World Bank, Judiciary, Afghanistan, Justice Sector, Justice, Politics News
Lisa Gans

A corrupt society like that in Afghanistan is a lawless one, and in a lawless environment, nothing works and everyone lives in fear, clinging to tribal or ethnic affiliations to protect them.

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World Bank Still Not Lending With Environment (And Disasters) In Mind: Report

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Andy Revkin, Rainforest, World Bank, Environment, The Burning Season, Amazon, Rain Forest, Green News

Back in 1989, when I spent four months scouring the road-laced reaches of the western Amazon researching my first book, The Burning Season, I learned ...

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"Fantasy Dessert" Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Global Food Crisis, Food Crisis, World Bank, G8, Hunger, World Hunger, G8 Fantasy Dessert, Food Prices, Green News
Frances Moore Lappe

We're facing the biggest human rights crisis of my lifetime: The U.K.'s ActionAid estimates that current price spikes may have doubled the number of hungry and food-insecure people to 1.7 billion.

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Good Grief, Gordon Brown!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Gordon Brown, Gas Prices, Biofuels, How to Solve World Hunger, Alternative Energy, World Hunger, Economy, Agriculture, World Bank, Environment, Global Poverty, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Google, Food, Food Prices, Politics News
Frances Moore Lappe

By scolding Britons to "cut [their] food waste," Prime Minister Gordon Brown reinforces the dangerous myth that a shortage of food is the reason food prices have jumped.

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Killing the Dead Sea Twice Is Good for Politicians, Not the Environment

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Jordan, Politics, Red Sea, Shimon Peres, Ecology, Middle East, World Bank, Environment, Israel, Palestine, Treehugger, Dead Sea, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.

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Economic Colonization: The Rich Profiting from the Poor is Not the Way to Handle Microfinance

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Grameen, Microcredit, World Bank, Borrowers, Foundation, Business, Alex Counts, Donate Grameen America, Wealth, Microfinance, Interest Rates, Mohammed Yunus, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

What is the point of microfinancing the poor build up small businesses if it is only to eventually provide wealthy, Western-owned businesses and individuals with even a larger share of the world's wealth?

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World Bank Prices First Carbon Offset Bond

Reuters | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: United Nations Climate Change, Carbon Offset Credits, World Bank Carbon Bond, Climate Change, United Nations, World Bank, Certified Emissions Reduction Credits, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

The World Bank on Monday priced a $25 million bond linked to United Nations-approved carbon emission offset credits, the market's first such bond, lea...

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Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Biofuels, Trade, Food Crisis, Malawi, World Bank, Agriculture, Africa, Imf, Wto, Structural Adjustment, Politics News
Walden Bello

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

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Food Riots Skyrocket, World Leaders Have No Solutions

Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Higher Prices, Finance Ministers, Food Shortages, Food Riots, Robert Zoellick, Commodity Prices, World Bank, Jacques Edouard Alexis, Bio-Fuels, Haiti, Corn-Based Ethanol, Global Food Prices, Ethanol, Global Financial Crisis, Surging Prices, Global Riots, Business News

Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...

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Wolfowitz Picked for Arms Control Panel

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush Administration, Wolfowitz Returns to Government, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, World Bank, Wolfowitz State Department, Condoleezza Wolfowitz, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz will head a high-level advisory panel on arms control and disarmament, the State Department ...

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Bomb Threat Shuts Down World Bank

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: World Bank Bomb Threat, World Bank Washington, World Bank, Business News

The World Bank said on Thursday its security staff was investigating a bomb threat made by telephone and told employees of its Washington headquarters...

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Head Of World Bank Fraud Unit Resigns Amid Turmoil

New York Times | STEVEN R. WEISMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, World Bank Antifraud, Robert Zoellick, World Bank Fraud, World Bank, Business News

Six months after taking over as president of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick faced new turmoil on Wednesday over a campaign against corruption in b...

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US No Longer Top Donor To World Bank

Reuters | Iain Rogers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Britain and World Bank, US and World Bank, World Bank Donations, Top World Bank Donor, World Bank, Business News

The United States lost its status as the largest donor to the World Bank's main fund for poor countries, the lender said on Friday, as Britain pledged...

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Britain Edges Out U.S. As Top World Bank Donor

New York Times | Mark Landler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert B. Zoellick, Paul Wolfowitz, Britain, World Bank, Business News

Overcoming earlier misgivings about its direction and leadership, the World Bank said Friday it had raised $25.1 billion in aid for the world's poores...

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Chavez, S. American Allies Launch Regional Bank

AP | Bill Cormier | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Imf, Banco Del Sur, Chavez, Hugo Chavez, Inter-American Development Bank, Bank of the South, President Chavez, World Bank, Business News

Hugo Chavez and leaders of six other South American nations launched a regional development bank that they tout as the continent's answer to U.S.-infl...

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