When China's state-owned Agricultural Bank was recently listed, no big Western bank bought a significant stake.
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She has worked with both the Agricultural Bank of China and the Bank of China (BACHY).
Agricultural Bank of China and the Bank of China have also raised money recently.
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Even Agricultural Bank of China, traditionally the weakest of the quartet, had a 1.34% ratio.
And of course there have been share issues sopping up any remaining liquidity, notably the Agricultural Bank of China IPO.
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Although he took the entire sector to task, Chanos highlighted Agricultural Bank of China in particular, because of the amount of debt it carries.
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True, Agricultural Bank achieved the world's largest initial public offering just last month, and on August 18th China Everbright Bank, another lender, enjoyed a strong debut in Shanghai.
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The Fed also granted approval to Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. to build a branch in New York City, and to Bank of China Ltd. to build a branch in Chicago.
Attempts to reach Agricultural Bank of China were unsuccessful.
Bank of China, the country's largest foreign-exchange bank, said that its net profit climbed 12% on-year in 2012, higher than analyst expectations. 2012 net profit at Agricultural Bank of China, China's largest rural lender by assets, came out a touch lower than expectations.
In addition, stock prices of the big Chinese banks are relatively cheap: Bank of China trades at 1.4 times forward book value, and Agricultural Bank of China trades at 1.6 book value for fiscal year 2011, even though Bank of China is considered a better-run bank.
The annual Bank of Scotland Agricultural Report found farmers who believe the industry to be prosperous or very prosperous fell to 11%.
While rich countries would benefit most from getting rid of their crazy agricultural systems, the World Bank analysis suggests that 80% of the benefits reaped by poor countries from farm reform would come from reductions in the barriers between poor countries themselves.
"Everyone is upset because stocks fell by 1, 000 points, but current levels are much higher than those seen several months ago, " said Yoshio Kono, chief executive of Norinchukin Bank, which serves agricultural cooperatives nationwide.
Sartaj Aziz, who served as finance minister and foreign minister under Nawaz Sharif, once worked as an economist at the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization.
During a summer at the World Bank, she worked on Moroccan agricultural policy with a team of consultants.
The latest attack caused a three-day service outage at the bank - also called the National Agricultural Co-operative Federation - and caused the records of some credit card customers to be deleted.
He said the US would seek to reach an agreement for the funds owed to the multilateral donors, which include the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the International Development Association.
Among other changes, the letter called for any Indonesian budget surplus to be spent on rural infrastructure rather than on reducing debts and for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to play a greater role in overseeing agricultural reforms.
The authors offer a number of sensible remedies to such ills, including different ways of boosting investment in public agricultural research and possible reforms at multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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He is a powerful businessman with controlling stakes in dozens of companies, including a bank, Paraguay's largest tobacco company and a variety of agricultural businesses.
Mr Cartes said he relinquished the control of his enterprises, including a bank, Paraguay's largest tobacco company and a variety of agricultural businesses, to his sister, Sarah.
Kenya's Equity Bank has formed an alliance with groups such as The International Fund for Agricultural Development to reduce its risks when lending to smallholders.
Bank of America research finds that since 1930 a representative basket of commodities including metals, agricultural products and energy has produced lower returns than stocks, averaging 8% a year compared with 11%, but with much lower volatility.
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