This chart, from the World Bank's China 2030 report earlier this year, makes the point.
And in this electronic world, who needs the International Monetary Fund, the sister bureaucracy to the World Bank?
Wambugu won the World Bank award for global development in 2000 after introducing the tissue-culture banana to Kenya.
How about former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and former World Bank President James Wolfensohn?
The World Bank ranks it number 112, out of 185 nations, for ease of doing business.
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World Bank types, he complains, tend to favor (and fund) paved roads and train tracks.
As president of the World Bank, Wolfowitz supervises virtually all of its daily operations.
In 2003, the World Bank said the energy sector comprised 25% of the nation's GDP.
The head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, is leaving at the end of next month.
Before we get into the nitty-gritty, just briefly explain what the World Bank does.
They house tenants associated with the World Bank and the International Development Law Organization, among others.
The World Bank has pushed to ban them because it claims the policies encourage kidnappers.
He certainly charmed international bankers during a World Bank conference in Hong Kong last September.
United Nations and World Bank officials talk of a new deal for food aid.
Finally, there's this week's naming of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank.
The World Bank did, however, identify some problem areas it felt could hold back economic growth.
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At that time, the World Bank estimated 125 million people were in extreme poverty.
Alumni include a dental hygienist, a rabbinical student and someone who works at the World Bank.
The World Bank was designed to help countries, particularly developing ones, finance major infrastructure projects.
The World Bank has a project that studies the barriers to growth in less-developed countries.
Private capital can just as easily finance a sound capital project as can the World Bank.
The IMF, the World Bank and the ADB are working together closely in Indonesia.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said that senior party and government officials appear to support change.
World Bank research suggests that they are 25% more expensive than India's, but 50% more productive.
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According to the World Bank, only 10% of Indonesian fuel subsidies benefit the poor.
The World Bank had been planning to blame pollution for just 750, 000 deaths from various causes.
Last year, the World Bank started lending to Burma after a gap of 25 years.
As expected, the World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, a public-health expert, as its next president.
The scheme was interesting too because it was run together with the World Bank.
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