Under a World Bank loan, the authorities have continued to improve the framework for problem bank resolutions.

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The World Bank offered the loan to Malawi at the recent health and finance ministers' Aids summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

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The World Bank put a big loan on hold.

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Mr Shima was dispatched to Washington to raise a loan from the World Bank.

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He quit after four months, in part to protest the World Bank's withholding of a loan to Ecuador.

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To Uruguay's annoyance, Argentina is now trying to block a loan from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation to fund 9% of the plants' cost.

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Myanmar will start clearing its debt owed to the World Bank and the ADB, with financing from a bridge loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

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"There isn't a bank in the world that would make a loan from a Zillow valuation, but I love it, " Kelly says.

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According to a recent report by the World Bank, private lenders have granted borrowers more flexibility with loan covenants and demanded fewer third-party guarantees.

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Its loan book is now twice as big as the World Bank's, and it funds foreign buying sprees by Brazilian firms.

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Officials say the World Bank wanted certain conditions to be met before it could revive the loan, including the removal of some Bangladeshi officials linked with the project.

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