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Viewpoints: California, Quebec join to take lead on climate policy
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Rubber boom fuelling land grabs in SE Asia: activists
May 13, 2013 | Agence France-Presse

Nouriel Roubini on Central Bank Policies, Economy
April 22, 2013 | Bloomberg

Rehn Says EU Needs a Banking Union to Avert Crises
April 19, 2013 | Bloomberg

World Bank Wikipedia Information

The World Bank (the Bank) is a part of the World Bank Group (WBG), is a bank that makes loans to developing countries for development programs with the stated goal of reducing poverty. The World Bank differs from the World Bank Group in that the former only comprises the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association,...

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International Finance Corporation and Deutsche Bank bankrolling Vietnamese land grabs in Cambodia and Laos
May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs"...

Hannah Stoddart: Oxfam response to World Bank announcement on land rights
April 09, 2013
April 9, 2013 - In response to the World Bank's statement to build capacity and safeguards related to land rights, Oxfam's land grab campaign lead Hannah...

World Bank Group: Access to Land is Critical for the Poor
April 09, 2013
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 – As the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty convened this week in Washington, DC, The World Bank Group issued the...

Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth’s most threatened tribe
April 18, 2013
The Awá are scared to go hunting in the forest because they fear attacks by illegal loggers. © Survival ...

World Bank refuses to review its support for logging in tropical rainforests despite criticism from its own independent evaluators
February 11, 2013
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2013 - The World Bank Board of Directors has blocked a call by independent evaluators to review the outcomes of the Bank's support for...

WWF: World Bank must fight climate change and stop funding fossil fuel projects
November 19, 2012
GLAND, Switzerland, Nov. 19, 2012 - The World Bank and its member governments must move funding out of fossil fuel projects and into renewable energy if they are...

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International conference sets agenda for climate- smart ag research
March 25, 2013 | UC Davis News
Developed in coordination with the World Bank and the Dutch ministry, the conference was designed to establish scientific priorities, building upon the broad science and policy...

UC Davis experts available to comment on California propositions
November 05, 2012 | UC Davis News
She is co-director of a National Institutes of Health Training Grant in Biomolecular Technology and has served on panels for the United Nations, World Bank and World Trade...

From around the web

The Angry Birds, Ranked
April 23, 2013 | Deadspin
Your kid can still grow up to be a moron, while Little Johnny Paste-eater over in the corner wo not speak until age four but will then become President of the World Bank. Kids...

Family planning in Haiti: A delicate balance
April 22, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Haiti's birth rate has been declining since the early 1980s, when it was about 42 babies per 1,000 people, according to the World Bank. It now stands at about 24 per 1,000....

Internet penetration is never correlated with increasing power to dictators, and...
April 18, 2013 | Boing Boing
So he scatter-plotted PolityIV's democratization scores from 2002/2011, and cross-referenced them with World Bank/ITU data on internet users. The conclusion: by this...

Chinese scholar impressed with Americans' belief in their country
April 10, 2013 | indystar.com
We visited the State Department, the Pentagon, Customs and Border Protection, the World Bank, the Brookings Institution and the CATO Institute. The program was an intense...

World Bank Owes People of African Heritage Apology
December 16, 2012 | MetaFilter
'' Claims of institutional racism against black people have dogged the World Bank ... The World Bank Dear Mr. President We, the undersigned, are executive committee members of...

The World Bank warns that a 4 degree C global temperature increase would devastate...
November 19, 2012 | reddit.com: what's new online
submitted by quakeroats12 to science [ link ] [ 84 comments ] ...

World Bank on twitter

	RT @natanderson: In a drive toward reform, World Bank’s Jim Yong Kim turns to a ‘deliverologist’ http://t.co/abRgoCF1d7 Twitter: @milouness
	RT @mujemaso: RT @NLDar: World bank TZ economic update, port of Dar es Salaam is key to transformation. Twitter: @kilongawima
	World Bank Group releases 22-country study of universal health coverage http://t.co/3JMr4jHpT1 Twitter: @awocelsius
	Ways insatiable corp profit hunger devastated Amerrican life & world http://t.co/GpJmFurLSP World Bank tied 2 Gates #Monsanto big pt problem Twitter: @PositivelyJoan
	In a drive toward reform, World Bank’s Jim Yong Kim turns to a ‘deliverologist’ http://t.co/abRgoCF1d7 Twitter: @natanderson
	RT @SIDEastAfrica: #Tanzania Could Boost its Economy by Reforming the Port of Dar es Salaam \| http://t.co/nVQdXeopEz \| via the @WorldBank Twitter: @stevpm