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• Yuan as new global currency? It can bode well for India (Comment)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Sushma RamachandranThe fact that World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said that China’s yuan may become the global reserve currency over the next 15 years assumes significance not just for the world but also for India. It has the potential to make Indian goods relatively more competitive as the Chinese ...
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• Transfroming Africa’s Poor Infrastructure

  
  AfricanLoft — Authority: 126
  Poor state of infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa—its electricity, water, roads and information and communications technology (ICT)—cuts national economic growth by two percentage points every year and reduces productivity by as much as 40 percent.
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• Feds Move to Seize Alavi Assets, Aiming at Iran, Bank Melli (World’s Top Sharia Bank)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Yesterday the US attorney’s office in Manhattan moved to seize assets of a non-profit foundation tied to Iran. Among those assets are four mosques in New York, California, Maryland and Texas, 100 acres of land in Virginia and a 36-story building at 650 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Much of this activity centers around the ...
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• Farms on the radar at Copenhagen climate talks

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  LONDON (Reuters) - U.N. negotiators will next month put farming onto the radar of climate regulations for the first time, but governments face aggressive lobbies and gaps in the science proving the extent of agricultural emissions. "Theyre lucky to have got away with it this far, it should be included in a U.S. ...
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• International Finance Corp to be chief advisor for Kerala port

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Kochi, Nov 13 (IANS) International Finance Corp (IFC), a member of the World Bank group, will provide advisory services to Kerala for building a greenfield port at Vizhinjam, near state capital Thiruvananthapuram.“We are partnering with Kerala to increase capacity of its port to enable more trade and create jobs,” ...
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• World Bank president: inflation a risk to recovery

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Asian economies must handle their monetary and currency policies carefully to avoid unleashing a wave of potentially destabilizing inflation, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Friday.
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• World Bank Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  World Development Report 2010 Website ; Main Messages of the Report World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change Act Now, Act Together, Act Differently Today’s enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change—the two are inextricably linked and together ...
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• The Long-Term Cost of the Mortgage Fraud Meltdown — The Real Legacy of Wall Street

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 130
  Editor’s Note: Why do I do this? Because we are delivering a message to future generations about how the world works contrary to our constitution and contrary to American values and ideals. Conservatives conserve nothing except the wealth of the fantastic few while the liberals liberate nobody from the yoke of ...
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• “Random Hacks Of Kindness” Starts Today; “Give Camp” Brings Together Tech Competitors (Incl. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo) With Disaster Experts To Help On Crisis Preparedness/Response

  
  In Case Of Emergency, Read Blog — Authority: 472
  As part of the inaugural “Random Hacks Of Kindness: Disaster Relief Codejam” (RHoK) , a group of more than 150 leading crisis and technology experts are coming together for the next several days to work on identifying key challenges and developing solutions to ‘real world’ problems related to emergency ...
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• World Bank data in Google

  
  ryancbriggs.net — Authority: 99
  Today Google started including 17 World Bank world development indicators in its standard search results. Relevant search queries, like one above , not only present the World Bank data, but also present graphs of the data. This seems to simply be the result of the World Bank making their data available through a ...
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• Daily DUH!

  
  Life Is A Cookie — Authority: 125
  World Bank President Robert Zoellick has the crucial info! LISTEN UP!!!!! Talking to reporters about the überly-astronomical 10.2% U.S. unemployment rate, Mr. Braintrust blah blah’d: “You’re going to have problems with delinquencies of credit card loans, consumer loans, people won’t be able to pay their ...
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• Yuan on the Way to Becoming an Alternative Reserve Currency & Obama’s Off to China to INSIST That the Chinese Play Nice

  
  InsightAnalytical -- Watching Our World — Authority: 116
  ~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL OK, here we go again, in all likelihood, with another big blast of hot air from Barack Obama. Reuters, like the AP, doesn’t appreciate quoting from their articles.  So, for details follow the link from 11/10/2009: World Bank: yuan to become alternative reserve currency Let’s ...
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• China’s yuan can be alternative reserve currency in 15 years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Singapore, Nov 12 (IANS) World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said in 15 years the Chinese yuan can become an alternative to US dollar as a global reserve currency, with China’s fast economic growth and efforts to internationalise the currency.In an investment summit held on the sidelines of the 17th ...
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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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• Accountants to the Rescue! A Whole System Approach to PFM Architecture

  
  PFM Blog — Authority: 119
  Posted by Suzanne Flynn The UK based Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has issued a an ambitious, but also a somewhat theoretic, draft consultation paper, with support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) on what...
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• Google Integrates World Bank Data

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 696
  Students and statistics hounds now have even more reason to love Google.  Today, the search giant announced that its made information related to 17 World Development Indicators available through standard search results pages. The stats come courtesy of the World Bank, and a post on the Official Google Blog ...
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• World Bank Open API Data: Now in Google Search Results

  
  The Agile Approach blogs — Authority: 109
  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 ...
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• World Bank Main Honduras Creditor

  
  Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras — Authority: 546
  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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• JPMorgan Chase to Hire 1,200 Mortgage Officers

  
  Loan News — Authority: 120
  JPMorgan Chase says it plans to hire 1,200 mortgage loan officers by the end of next year. The additions will increase the bank’s sales force by 60%, the bank said in a release. The additional staff will be located in 23 states and will help the bank go after new mortgage business and refi… us bank ...
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