IMF-World Bank

  • Apr 17, 2012
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Kim to lead World Bank after rare challenge for post

The Board of Executive Directors yesterday selected Kim for a five-year term starting on July 1.

International
  • Apr 17, 2012
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Despite loan, IMF euro-area buffer could be elusive

Japan today announced a 60 billion dollar loan to the IMF just days before a meeting of G20...

International
  • Apr 11, 2012
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Commodities could suffer global correction, not slump

While the commodity 'super cycle' of the last decade has showed resilience to recent global...

International
  • Apr 2, 2012
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Euro-area bailout fund 'boost' will not impress G20

Euro-area leaders agreed on Friday to allow a one-year overlap between the temporary bailout...

EU
  • Mar 29, 2012
  • 7 min read

Huge challenges await next World Bank president

South Korean-born US national Jim Yong Kim, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and...

International
  • Mar 29, 2012
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IMF approves Angola's final loan disbursement

The IMF yesterday approved the final 132.9 million dollar tranche of the 1.4 billion dollar loan...

Angola
  • Mar 29, 2012
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Splits limit BRICS' global influence

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa stated today that Iran has the right...

International
  • Mar 26, 2012
  • 7 min read

Hungary still lacks thorough-going structural reforms

The European Commission on March 22 referred Hungary to the Court of Justice for its windfall tax...

Hungary