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• World Bank Boosts Philippine Aid As Typhoon Becomes Deadliest Ever

  November 22, 2013 10:53 p.m.The World Bank has offered $480 million in additional assistance to help the Philippines rebound from Typhoon Haiyan as the number of dead hit 5,235 on Saturday, making it the deadliest typhoon ever to hit the country.

• World Bank Chief: China Economic Growth Numbers 'Rebounding'

  November 12, 2013 12:25 p.m.The head of the World Bank said that Chinese economic data are improving and expressed confidence that Beijing would continue on the path toward reforming the world's second-biggest economy.

• World Bank Issues First Rupee-Linked Bonds

  November 20, 2013 10:11 a.m.

• World Bank: Israel's West Bank Hold Costs Palestinians Billions

  October 9, 2013 01:23 a.m.Israel's restrictions on Palestinian access to vast open lands in the West Bank costs the Palestinian economy an annual $3.4 billion in unrealized activity, says the World Bank.

• Former Pakistani Fin Min: Growth vs. Stability

  November 18, 2013 12:00 a.m.Shahid Javed Burki, vice president of the World Bank between 1994 and 1999 and finance minister in Pakistan between 1996 and 1997, sets out how India and Pakistan should play their economic hand.

• Survey Roundup: World Bank Project Corruption, Third Party Risk

  October 18, 2013 04:32 p.m.The World Bank said it substantiated 49 cases of corruption and fraud in projects it funded in fiscal 2013.

• World Bank Cuts Asia Growth Forecast

  October 6, 2013 11:23 p.m.The World Bank cut its 2013 growth forecast for developing East Asian economies to 7.1% because of slower growth in China and other nations in the region.
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  World Bank Cuts 2013 Growth Forecast for East Asia

  October 6, 2013 11:07 p.m.The World Bank cut its 2013 growth forecast for developing East Asian economies to 7.1% because of slower growth in China and other nations in the region.

• Jim Yong Kim Aims to Reshape World Bank

  October 1, 2013 05:06 p.m.In his effort to eradicate poverty around the globe, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is trying to fundamentally reshape how the 69-year-old development institution works.

• Malaysia Catches Up With Singapore in Ease of Doing Business

  October 29, 2013 06:01 p.m.The World Bank has once again ranked Singapore as best place to do business, but Malaysia is quickly catching up with its neighbor, ahead of all the other countries in Southeast Asia.

• World Bank Gives Myanmar's Energy Sector a Boost

  September 25, 2013 06:45 a.m.The World Bank has approved US$140 million interest-free loan designed to modernize a key gas turbine plant in Myanmar, part of a bid to aid the Southeast Asian country's crippled energy sector.

• World Bank Presses China on Urbanization

  September 18, 2013 10:37 a.m.China should develop a "market mechanism" to reallocate farmland for urban use, the head of the World Bank's private-sector arm said.

• World Bank Escalates Fight Against Corruption

  September 15, 2013 07:01 p.m.True to its word earlier this year, the World Bank has been aggressively fighting corruption in the projects it funds, according to new research.
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  World Bank to Set Up Infrastructure

  September 6, 2013 08:27 a.m.The World Bank is setting up a global infrastructure facility aimed at channeling funds from member nations and the private sector into projects it hopes will boost jobs and growth in developing countries.

• Russia Gets Friendlier for Businesses but Analysts Want More

  October 29, 2013 11:39 a.m.Russia jumped into the top one hundred of The World Bank's latest annual report into the ease of doing business in countries around the world--its highest ranking since 2008.

• Ease of Doing Business in India Slips

  October 29, 2013 04:54 a.m.The World Bank said that the country's procedure for setting up a business had become more complicated in the last year.

• Brazil Adds Mostly Positive Notes to IMF/World Bank Summit in Deadlocked Washington

  October 14, 2013 03:50 p.m.Few rays of sunshine pierce the gloom enveloping the American capital these days. One or two of them come from Brazil.

• Q&A: In Support of Investment in Myanmar

  October 14, 2013 12:17 a.m.Kevin Lu, director for the Asia-Pacific region at the World Bank's MIGA, talks about how Myanmar's membership in the agency could give a boost to private-sector financing in the country.

• World Bank Chief: Market Volatility A Sign of Strengthening U.S. Economy

  September 6, 2013 01:38 p.m.World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says the volatility in emerging markets is a sign of a strengthening U.S. economy.