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• Google Makes World Bank Data More Discoverable: Takes a Swipe at Wolfram Alpha

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• World Bank Open API Data: Now in Google Search Results

  
  The Agile Approach blogs — Authority: 409
  Earlier this year we blogged about the launch of a new Open API, which Phase2 built for The World Bank. The Open API allows third-party developers and organizations to freely query World Banks largest dataset containing world economic and business indicators and create all kinds of interesting mash-ups. Today Google ...
  7 hours ago

• World Bank Main Honduras Creditor

  
  Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras — Authority: 545
  The World Bank heads the list as the main creditor of Honduras. As of September 30, 2009, the balance of the debt to the Bank reached 489 million dollars, according to a report by the Ministry of Finance (MoF), equivalent to 19.9% of Honduras’ total external public debt, which was 2,457 million dollars.The second ...
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• Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers (AFP)

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 162
  AFP – Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find. Read the original post: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers (AFP)
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• Dollar Index makes 15 month low at 74.83

  
  Stock Advice — Authority: 135
  Dollar Index makes 15 month low at 74.83; Gold makes all time high at $ 1115 an ozDollar Index hits 15-month low of 74.77. Euro extends gains to $ 1.5040. AUD, Chile Peso are at 15 month highs. CAD is at 2 week highs.World Bank President said that Chinese Yuan can be an alternative World [...]
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• World Bank: World Development Indicators 2009 by Carlos A. Primo Braga

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 161
  World Development Indicators 2009 | Publisher: World Bank Publications 2009 | 420 Pages | ISBN: 0821378295 | PDF Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators is the World Banks premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference ...
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• World Bank Governance: Let’s Get Real on Reform and Global Public Goods!

  
  Global Development: Views from the Center — Authority: 461
  The central message in last week’s CGD forum featuring former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo on World Bank governance reform was “let’s get real.” From whom and from where will come any impetus to take up the Zedillo Commission’s good ideas? Answer: G-20, with the United States in the lead.Read about ...
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• Urbanization is inevitable process: Varma

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  The Times of India reports According to Varma, “Urbanization is an inevitable process, according to recent research 90 per cent of urban growth is taking place in the developing world. But the present urban planning is not in consolidation of the rapid urban growth taking place.” Keshav Varma is now heading ...
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• Development Marketplace 2009

  
  ICT4D.at — Authority: 118
  From tomorrow until Friday the Development Marketplace 2009 , hosted by the World Bank Group in Washington takes place. The event is the final date for the Development Marketplace competition - dealing with the topic of Climate Adaption this year. Over 1700 projects tackling climate change were handed in and ...
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• The Zedillo Report

  
  ryancbriggs.net — Authority: 91
  Two days ago I attended the Washington, DC launch of the World Bank’s report on internal governance, headed by former Mexican president  Ernesto Zedillo . You can download the report here . The executive summary does a good job overviewing the report and is quite readable, so I’ll only briefly mention a few of ...
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• Another Way to Make Money in RuneScape

  
  Authspot — Authority: 512
  another way to make money with a good profit is to buy iron ore go to falador and smelt it then bank and repeat till its finished and then sell this way has its flaws but you will get you’re money back and more also one more is to get you’re mining level really up and go mine runite ore but its also ...
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• China to lead world economic recovery

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 470
  A recent World Bank report has suggested that amongst the world’s major economies , the Chinese economy will be the first to emerge out of the global slowdown. The World Bank predicted China to grow at almost 8.4 percent and that would be enough to offset the slump in the US, Japan and the EU during the first three ...
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• World economy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  The world and the financial crisis II ; G20 Summit ; China and the world economy ; Europe and the EU ; Global Economic Crisis and the Informal Economy ; Wednesday-Night.com - economy ; G20 (Pittsburgh): The World Is Watching And now for the G20’s next trick … (FP) On one level, the G20 seems to ...
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• Give professional tests to OFWs, Arroyo orders

  
  Pinoy News and Blogosphere Buzz — Authority: 131
  MANILA - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered a government agency to give special professional licensure exams to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed in the Middle East, a senior Malacanang official announced.    
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• From daily life to disaster in Gabura

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Oxfam launches online interactive documentary that captures moment when cyclone Aila hit country in May
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• Ghana: Ghana Water Company under fire

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is under fire from both the allAfrica.com”>government and anti-privatisation activists for poor service delivery and corruption. In the wake of this criticism, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), the private operator which supports GWCL since 2006 as part of a World ...
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• 4th Year Running Singapore is Easiest Place to Do Business

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 433
  For the 4th year running, Singapore has once again gotten the first place ranking in a global study of 183 economies as to its “Ease of Doing Business”. In 2nd place is New Zealand, 3rd is Hong Kong, 4th is USA and 5th, the UK. How this ranking is reached [ PDF ] is through a simple average of the 10 topics ...
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• Rotten Tree of Democarcy Must Be Uprooted

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  Talha Mujaddidi“Another such victory and we have had it”, King Pyrrhus of EpirusThis ancient quote comes to mind after witnessing the latest run of CIA imposed democracy in Pakistan. The old crooks back with gloss and glitter. The biggest crook getting the biggest prize, the Presidency, the rest of the goons ...
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• POLL: Is Goldman Sachs “doing God’s work”? Its CEO thinks so

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 128
  Check out the headline at the bottom left of the Sunday Times front page. The man the London paper calls the most powerful banker on Earth says he is "just a banker doing God’s work" . The report says Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein "proudly pays himself more in a year than most of us could ...
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• POLL: Is Goldman Sachs “doing God’s work”? Its CEO thinks so

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 608
  Check out the headline at the bottom left of the Sunday Times front page. The man the London paper calls the most powerful banker on Earth says he is “just a banker ‘ doing God’s work’” . The report says Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein “proudly pays himself more in a year than most ...
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