The International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank, postponed a meeting to discuss special economic zones.

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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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The trend-setting region has been Nizhny Novgorod, where the International Finance Corporation, an arm of the World Bank, has been helping collective farms break up amicably and efficiently.

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The Cassa's Croatian venture is already breaking even, and received an unusual seal of approval on March 20th, when the World Bank's International Finance Corporation took a 14% stake.

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The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank, is using GreenPrint in a pilot project, sending feedback to the company to help fine-tune the software for the corporation's needs.

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They are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

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According to Lighting Africa, a joint World Bank - International Finance Corporation program developed to increase access to clean sources of energy for lighting, 589 million people in the continent live without access to a public electricity facility.

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