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    5 takeaways from the World Bank Annual Meetings www.devex.com/news/91298 A view of the plenary session at the 2017 World Bank Annual Meetings. Photo by: World Bank / CC BY-NC-ND WASHINGTON — The first annual meetings of World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s second term, and of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first...
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    Financial Times, October 15,2017   The US puts the World Bank under renewed fire It cannot be much fun running the World Bank these days. Apart from the complaints of the institution’s perennially fractious staff, the multilateral lender has seen increased competition from other sources of finance over the past...
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    Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 01.10.2017, Nr. 39, S. 24 DER SONNTAGSÖKONOM ALLES SCHÖN VERSCHLEIERT Die Weltbank verändert ihre Sprache. In den Berichten steht nicht mehr, wer entscheidet. Was soll das? Franco Moretti, Dominique Pestre: „Banksprech. Die Sprache der Weltbank-Jahresberichte, 1946-2012“, in: Franco Moretti u.a.: Literatur im Labor, Konstanz University Press 2017...
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    2017 Jahrestreffen/Annual Meeting; Strassburg, 8. – 10. September

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    Von: Franz Kaps <fkaps@t-online.de> Betreff: 2017 Jahrestreffen/Annual Meeting – Strasbourg, 8. – 10. September 2017 Datum: 24. September 2017 um 16:13:44 MESZ Liebe Freunde und Kollegen, anbei übersende ich heute das Protokoll des 2017 Jahrestreffens des deutschsprachigen Weltbank Kreises, das am 9.9. stattfand. Im englisch sprachigen Text findet sich außerdem...
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    With help from Michael Bloomberg, the World Bank and UN look to take the risk out of climate investments www.devex.com/news/91097 (From left) World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Bloomberg Philanthropies Founder Michael Bloomberg and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa. Photo by: Michael...
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    What the World Bank’s shift from public to private funding means for development by Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg 8 hours ago 149 views0 Photo: Flickr. PrintFriendlyPrintFacebook2TwitterMore2 Making economies work for more people is a political task, not a technical exercise. The World Bank has just conceded this – without...
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    INSIDE DEVELOPMENT G20 SUMMIT World Bank launches ‚Ivanka Fund‘ for women entrepreneurs By Andrew Green @_andrew_green10 July 2017 1 Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, opened the panel discussion at the launch event for the Women’s Entrepreneurship Facility. With him are Siv Jensen (left), Norway’s minister of finance,...
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    Von: Franz Kaps <fkaps@t-online.de> Betreff: 2017 Jahrestreffen/Annual Meeting – Strassburg, 8. – 10. September Datum: 26. Juni 2017 um 10:48:25 MESZ Kopie: Joelle Levourc’h <jlevourch@gmail.com>, Christian Merat <christianmerat504@gmail.com>, Elke Kreuzwieser <ek22201@msn.com>, Diethard Hubatsch <diethard.hubatsch@googlemail.com>, Konrad Von Ritter <kvonritter@gmail.com>   Liebe Freunde, in weniger als 10 Wochen werden wir uns wir...