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World Bank Hints New Strategies at Development Committee Meeting
2013-04-21 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The World Bank gave the first hints of its new strategies crafted under the presidency of Jim Yong Kim during a development committee meeting yesterday, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak said. The poverty-fighting lender, with projects ranging from building bridges to education and health-care loans, plans to focus on specific areas where it has an obvious competitive edge, Storchak told reporters today in Washington. He was attending the spring meetings of the bank and International...
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Commodities slump sends slow ripples through world economy
2013-04-21 09:39:38| Railroads - Topix.net
Lower airfares, cheaper food and rising profit margins are among the benefits that should flow from tumbling oil and commodity prices - but only after a long lead time.
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Global finance officials endorse World Bank target to end poverty
2013-04-20 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global finance officials on Saturday endorsed a new World Bank goal to end extreme global poverty by 2030 and emphasized that its focus should be on ensuring that the poorest benefit from strong growth and rising prosperity in developing nations. "For the first time in history we have committed to setting a target to end poverty," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Saturday following a meeting of the World Bank's Development Committee. "We are no longer dreaming of a world free of poverty;...
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'Productivity edge' boosts Canada's agricultural industry on world stage: BMO
2013-04-20 12:53:29| Agriculture - Topix.net
A fall harvest in central Alberta is seen in this file photo. A new BMO study says Canada's agriculture industry is helped on the world stage by its 'productivity edge.' A fall harvest in central Alberta is seen in this file photo.
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Earth Day challenges China and the rest of the world to do better
2013-04-20 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kansas City Star: Earth Day will be celebrated Monday around the globe. That's as it should be, as scientists find more ways that pollution, energy production, climate change and other issues such as recycling are interconnected. Which brings us to China and its oversized impact on the state of the world. Earth Day there will be a cause for plenty of concern — and not just for the Chinese. The country of 1.35 billion people is plagued by horrendous pollution problems. Earlier this year Beijing suffered...
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