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Report: World Bank Fails to Address Poverty A new report by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group criticizes the international lending organization for failing to alleviate global poverty with programs that focus too single-mindedly on growth. The bank estimates that 1.1 Tsunami Reconstruction in India to cost $1.2 billion, says World rehabilitation and reconstruction needs in the four mainland tsunami-affected states and territories of India are to the tune of US$1.2 billion, according to a Damage and Needs Assessment Report prepared jointly by the World Bank, Darfur took world focus from Sudan north-south deal: Vraalsen The World Bank said in March that more than $1.1 billion of aid money was spent on urgent humanitarian needs mostly in the south. Aid needed in southern Sudan alone stands at $2.5 billion, the World Bank says. Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet Not a Morsel to Eat “Free trade”, “economic development”, and IMF/World Bank “assistance” are prescriptions for disaster for the people of the “developing world”. Having eliminated much of their own arable land for commercial or industrial use, On the Run as War Crosses Another Line in Africa A decade ago there were more than 200 private companies working here, according to the World Bank. Today, only about 20 remain. In the past decade, disease and hunger have slashed life expectancy by 10 years, to about 40. Friends of People While World Bank report claims that India is very near to poverty eradiction goal, Prime Minister Manmohan singh emphasising on farming sector abruptly deviates into a fresh controversy , pledging top priority to Muslims in resource World Bank and Rural Development by Steven Kyle Even granting that this figure only represents projects initiated in 2006 it is still obvious that rural development is not a primary focus of World Bank lending. Rather, as stated in the article, emphasis has been more on education and This Week’s Top 10 12/03-12/09/06 World Bank’s Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2006 from World Bank Poverty Growth and Development Blog; Guatemala: some headlines in news here this week from Xeni.net/trek; Small is Beautiful: ARTI from Oorjaa’s blog. Bank Deals Archive 5.50% 24-Month CD at State Farm Bank; BBC News: ING bank faces charges in the US; 5.86% 31-Month CD at a South Dakota CU; 5.34% 9-Month CD at a Florida CU; History Behind World Savings Bank; 5.25% 11-Month CD at Wachovia on World Bank, Batman and sub $100 Laptop PS: This came after whole hours in mind numbing sessions with smart from the World Bank in their Second Coming. They’re smart, expensive, utterly useless, tediously effeminate and ultimately evil. How they ever managed to be running a
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