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LESSONS learned during the Asian financial crisis show Europe must embrace both growth and austerity if it is to recover from it current economic woes, the World Bank said Thursday.

IF China continues to slow down, resource exporters such as Australia could be hit by a drop in commodity prices,  the World Bank says.

The World Bank cut its economic growth forecast for China this year to 8.2 per cent today and urged the country to rely on easier fiscal policy that boosts consumption rather than state investment to lift activity.

The eurozone debt crisis could have a negative impact on growth of East Asian economies, the World Bank warns in its latest report.

The new World Bank chief may come from the pro-poor camp, but he has arrived in a time of policy agnosticism.

The World Bank’s allegations of fraud and corrupt practices in highway projects funded by the multilateral agency could just be the tip of the iceberg.

The World Bank delivered an extraordinarily blunt warning to South Sudan's leadership over two months ago: their government's decision to halt oil production threatens to cripple the country's struggling economy, imperil its poorest citizens, and potentially bring about a total collapse of the state this summer. South Sudan decided in January to suspend its production of oil, which accounts ...

The government, with the help and financial support of international agencies like the World Bank, constructed the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) in the 1980s and 1990s. The intention was to build a large artificial waterway roughly east of and parallel to the Indus to carry salt water from the plains of Punjab. Districts including Sukkur, Nawabshah, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas and Badin are the part o...

By convention a US citizen has always led the World Bank since it was established in 1945. The appointment of Dr Jim Yong Kim as president on April 16 upholds this tradition.

Annie Lowrey ably summarizes the outcomes of spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank for the New York Times.  Here are her first two paragraphs:  Meetings of finance ministers and central bankers here over the weekend started with a pledge by wealthy nations to significantly increase the lending capacity of the International Monetary Fund to defend against the possibility of w...

European problems are expected to be a major preoccupation when officials gather in Washington for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Former colony Equatorial Guinea rejects controversial entrepreneur's massive housing development as "unreal"

In an expected move, the World Bank picked medical expert Dr. Jim Yong Kim as its new president on Monday. As the head of Dartmouth College and a founder of the global nonprofit Partners in Health, Kim was an unconventional nominee by President Barack Obama to lead the 187-nation institution focused on economic development. He quickly became known after his nomination last month for a video of ...

The World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College’s president, as its new chief on Monday after an unprecedented competition against nominees from Nigeria and Colombia. In a statement Monday afternoon, the bank board said it had chosen Kim as the institution’s 12th president to succeed Robert Zoellick when his five-year term ends in June. Read full article >>

Fluffeh writes "The World Bank is taking steps toward greater transparency. It announced recently that it would be instituting a new 'Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products' beginning July 1. The policy's full title is 'World Bank Open Access Policy for Formal Publications,' and the Bank says it will apply to 'manuscripts and all accompanying data sets... that result...

Jim Yong Kim, now the president of Dartmouth, says there is no one résumé that is sufficient to address the wide human problems addressed by the World Bank.

OPINION: LATER THIS month the executive board of the World Bank will meet in Washington DC to appoint the next president of the bank, one of the most prestigious and influential positions in the world of international finance.

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — the so-called BRICS nations — emphasized their growing economic power, but failed to come up with a plan for a rival to the World Bank.

Barack Obama made an unusual and what some described as an ''inspired'' pick for the post of World Bank President, nominating Korean-American physician-anthropologist Jim Yong Kim for a job that in the past has typically been awarded to a US establishment figure.

The (possible) next president of the World Bank is not a terrible rapper. And Internet, you are awesome.

Herewith, a look at the reputed contenders - and their chances - vying for the title of President of the World Bank

The week in science: Fire destroys Brazil’s Antarctic research station; Africa agricultural monitoring network launched; and World Bank partnership coordinates ocean conservation efforts.

Quick, what's the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil? Sorry, no: it's not coffee. In fact, while hard data is scant, it may well be -- of all things -- carbon. No, really. According to the World Bank (PDF) , the global carbon market was worth a whopping 1.42 Facebooks US$142 billion in 2010. Mind you, it's not like container ships weighed down to the gills with graphite are c...

The International Monetary Fund, headed by Christine Lagarde (pictured), is to boost its bailout fund to $1trillion. George Osborne said he is prepared to use British taxpayers cash to boost the IMF’s resources.

KARACHI - IFC, private sector arm of the World Bank Group, has launched an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) project in Lahore, says a Press release. IFC had previously supported the setting up of Karachi Centre for Dispute Resolution (KCDR), which is Pakistan’s first mediation centre, in 2006/07. The ADR project… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank's private-sector lender plans to work more closely with Intel, the world's top chipmaker, to invest in technology firms in developing countries, a senior World Bank official said on Monday.