...such as rising oil prices and global warming are being urged to dump the World Bank’s highly controversial ‘climate investment funds’.

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank approved on Tuesday the creation of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), a pair of international investment instruments designed to help developing countries mitigate rises in greenhouse gas (GHG ...

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WB grants Liberia emergency loan to address food crisis Posted by admin on June 22, 2008 under Investment and Business WASHINGTON, May 29 (Xinhua) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive

The IFC (a member organization of the World Bank Group) compiled private investment rates over GDP for 63 developing countries during the period 1970-2000. The data is available in Table C1 of Everhart and Sumlinski (2001) (IFC ...

In their final statement, Ministers supported the launch of new Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) by the World Bank, which will complement existing bilateral and multilateral efforts, until a post-2012 framework under the UNFCCC is ...

... the Earth International, Greenpeace, Oil Change International and Sustainable Energy and Economy Network and organizations from nearly 40 countries, have joined together to oppose the World Bank’s proposed Climate Investment Funds. ...

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - The World Bank said it expects China's economic growth to moderate to a more sustainable pace this year, expanding by 9.8 pct and easing further to 9.2 pct in 2009, against the 2007 revised rate of 11.9 pct. Although the global ...

Network and organizations from nearly 40 countries, have joined together to oppose the World Bank’s proposed Climate Investment Funds.

Too much of the development money committed to Afghanistan has gone straight back to donor countries in the pockets of consultants, a "second civil service", in the damning words of a recent World Bank report. It said the consultants "had taken some ...