Citing tiger population counts that have dwindled to a few thousand, several Hollywood stars have come out in support of a preservation campaign announced Monday by the World Bank.
The World Bank is making $1.2 billion available in grants and loans to combat the global food crisis, including $200 million for those most at risk in the world's poorest countries.
As Myanmar began a three-day mourning period Tuesday, the World Bank reiterated that it cannot provide financial assistance or loans to the cyclone-ravaged country because of unpaid debts.
If you fix the cities, do you fix the problem? With 50 percent of the entire human race currently living in cities and responsible for emitting up to 80 percent of all global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year, they certainly don't seem a bad place to start.
Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it comes to climate change. Deforestation, by varying accounts, contributes anywhere from 20 percent to 30 percent of all carbon dioxide (C02) emissions -- around 1.6 billion tons.
With over 200 public figures attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss town is set to be a real-life who's who of international statesmen and politicians. Below we've profile a few of this year's big hitters.
The next time you fall sick and someone suggests it's because of something in the water, they could be right. According to the World Bank, 88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
Citing tiger population counts that have dwindled to a few thousand, several Hollywood stars have come out in support of a preservation campaign announced Monday by the World Bank.
The World Bank is making $1.2 billion available in grants and loans to combat the global food crisis, including $200 million for those most at risk in the world's poorest countries.
As Myanmar began a three-day mourning period Tuesday, the World Bank reiterated that it cannot provide financial assistance or loans to the cyclone-ravaged country because of unpaid debts.
If you fix the cities, do you fix the problem? With 50 percent of the entire human race currently living in cities and responsible for emitting up to 80 percent of all global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year, they certainly don't seem a bad place to start.
Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it comes to climate change. Deforestation, by varying accounts, contributes anywhere from 20 percent to 30 percent of all carbon dioxide (C02) emissions -- around 1.6 billion tons.
With over 200 public figures attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss town is set to be a real-life who's who of international statesmen and politicians. Below we've profile a few of this year's big hitters.
The next time you fall sick and someone suggests it's because of something in the water, they could be right. According to the World Bank, 88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
A major donors conference to raise funds for the Palestinians has gone beyond expectations, with donors pledging $7.4 billion to help build a Palestinian state, organizers said Monday.
A siege mentality prevails at a World Bank unit that investigates allegations of misconduct and corruption in bank-financed projects, an independent panel says. It recommends the group reach out to other departments and outside advisers to deal with its problems.
The government of Chad said Thursday it will adhere to a program designed to put pressure on countries to be open about revenues from exports of oil, natural gas and minerals.
Robert Zoellick, a seasoned player in international financial and diplomatic circles, won the unanimous approval of the World Bank's board on Monday to become the poverty-fighting institution's next president
The World Bank Monday unanimously approved Robert Zoellick as its president after a controversial two-year term by Paul Wolfowitz, who agreed to resign over a promotion scandal involving his companion.
Healing the wounds and conflicts at the World Bank will be a difficult task in the aftermath of an ethics scandal, Robert Zoellick, the bank's likely next president, said on Monday.
Bob Zoellick, Bush's new choice to head the World Bank, is no ideologue like his predecessor. An Administration stalwart, he's finally getting a chance at a top job he craved
U.S. President George W. Bush said Wednesday he will nominate Robert Zoellick to be the 11th president of the World Bank, replacing Paul Wolfowitz, who was forced to step down.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and the White House were in talks with World Bank officials to work out details of his resignation, senior administration officials told CNN, adding they expect him to leave "soon."
Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and the White House were in talks Wednesday afternoon with World Bank officials to work out details of his resignation, senior administration officials told CNN.
An internal panel concludes World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz violated staff rules in arranging a promotion and pay raise for his girlfriend and questions whether he can still lead the bank, according to its report.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has reached out to her European counterparts to voice her support for embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, the State Department said Thursday.
Leading governments of Europe are willing to let the United States again choose the next World Bank president if embattled current President Paul Wolfowitz agrees to step down soon, according to a published report.
The world's second largest rainforest -- a haven of biodiversity and one of the planet's vital safeguards against runaway global warming -- is being devastated by illegal logging, environmentalists have warned.
It's not the kind of milestone one wants to celebrate. On June 5, the 25th anniversary of the first published case of what was later identified as AIDS, an estimated 40 million people around the wo...
Most people looking out across the sky of a large city are aware that breathing in that hazy, gritty cocktail of suspended pollutants simply cannot be good for the health.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad will stop its oil production from Tuesday unless it reaches an agreement with the World Bank to end a dispute over the use of oil revenues, a government minister said on Friday.
Liberia's newly installed President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, living up to her reputation as an "Iron Lady", has dismissed all Finance Ministry employees in a bid to curb the rampant corruption crippling her country.
Nations attending a bird flu meeting in the Chinese capital of Beijing had pledged $1.9 billion to fight the disease, a U.S. official said, exceeding expectations set by the World Bank.
Despite its devastating toll of human misery, the December 2004 tsunami had relatively little impact on the broad picture of Asian regional economic growth in 2005.
Last month's deadly quake in South Asia will cost Pakistan more than $5 billion -- more than twice the amount pledged so far, two international agencies have found in a joint report.
The new head of the World Bank has praised a historic agreement by Group of Eight finance ministers to cancel up to $55 billion in foreign debt owed by some of the world's poorest nations.
Global growth momentum has peaked but buoyant economic and financial conditions in most developing countries should continue, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
The World Bank board is expected to approve Paul Wolfowitz as its leader one day after the deputy defense secretary received the support of the European Union.
European leaders say they will not oppose the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank, despite initial misgivings about his role in the Iraq war.
Carly Fiorina, dismissed as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard last month, has emerged as a candidate to head the World Bank, according to published reports Tuesday.
For a couple of days this summer FORTUNE brought together 178 CEOs, scientists, teachers, politicians, think-tankers, activists, investors, former Presidents, and nobility of various gradations to ...
1 Out West: Colorado multitasks with the Telluride Film Festival and the Renaissance Weekend in Aspen. Back East: Russia conducts its first census since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
When he first heard that Exxon Mobil would be drilling for oil a mile beneath his village of Mbanga, in southern Chad, Patrice Matangarti's head swam with expectations. Perhaps his village would fi...
Business conferences don't achieve real status these days, it seems, unless they attract throngs of rock-throwing, meat-eschewing, puppet-wielding antiglobalization protesters. And on the face of i...
Stop me if you've heard this one before: In Heaven, the cooks are French, the police are English, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and the bankers are Swiss. But in Hell, the cooks...
Around 1 P.M. on Monday, April 17, a woman with a foam evergreen tree on her head stood before a police barricade on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, picked up a bullhorn, and asked several hundre...
James Wolfensohn is a modern-day Santa Claus. The white-maned president of the World Bank has visited dozens of countries in his own private jet, bringing money--or rather, the promise of money--wh...
TWO WAYS TO MEASURE To compare incomes among countries realistically, you have to adjust for what a given sum of money can buy in each. That's what University of Pennsylvania economists Robert Summ...
Development economists used to be big fans of command-and-control management of the economy in poor countries. That kind of thinking has landed on the dustheap of history, replaced by the convictio...
Away from the glare of TV cameras that follow South Africa's Nelson Mandela, most of the 47 nations that make up sub-Saharan Africa are quietly jettisoning socialism in favor of economic liberaliza...
DOUG GUSTAFSON, 52, in Poland on behalf of the World Bank's International Finance Corp., on the country's rush to capitalism: ''It's messy. But that's what freedom's about, and we may as well get o...
The tax man has sneaked behind the Iron Curtain and is emphatically not getting any Red carpet treatment. On January 1, Hungary became the first Soviet bloc country to impose a personal income tax ...
Joel Cooper Ex-surfer Cooper no longer rides the waves, but he still cruises Southern California beaches to find ideas for his sportswear company, Gotcha. As C.E.O., Cooper, 32, has kept Gotcha pop...
''Being in the microcomputer business is like going 55 miles an hour three feet from a cliff. If you make the wrong turn, you're bankrupt so fast you don't know what hit you.'' -GEORGE MORROW, 52, ...
Treasury Secretary James Baker envisions a three-pronged attack on the problems of 15 debt-laden developing countries. On one front he wants the debtor countries to make structural changes in their...
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