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...planning to increase the number of young people attending university from 12 million to 30 million in the next decade. The World Bank has observed that India's economic success cannot be sustained without major investments in education. China's investment...
...someone of Brad's caliber join our firm."Prior to his time at the Rainforest Center Ewing managed projects for the World Bank, United Nations, European Union, and the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works as a researcher for the Global Footprint...
...percent of the U.S. corn crop to be used for fuel this year, even in the midst of a record-breaking U.S. drought. World Bank researchers - among many others - have blamed the depletion of corn from our food supply for soaring global food and feed...
...the street may be familiar with the World Bank. Yet, it plays a critical role...post-conflict societies.As current World Bank President Robert Zoellick steps down...development professional as the head of the World Bank and floated himself as a candidate...
...global water consumption is doubling every 20 years. Looking at the 4 billion, low-income consumers in the world, the World Bank estimates the total market for drinking water in countries throughout Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America...
...earned about $1.40 a day, or $50 a month. It was hardly a living wage, although not unusual in a country where the World Bank estimates that more than 40 percent of the population lives near or under the poverty line of $2 a day.
...child will grow up in poverty has been going down. For developing countries as a whole, the percentage living below the World Bank's $1.25-per-day poverty line fell from 50 percent in 1981 to 25 percent in 2005. India's poverty rate fell...
...has the world's biggest government development bank, called BNDES. Its loan portfolio is larger than that of the World Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Washington, DC-based Inter-American Development Bank combined. Brazil...
...water, sanitation, healthcare, and economic infrastructures to underserved rural countries.Honduras is cited by the World Bank as the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti and Nicaragua and has been designated as a priority...
...Fisherman" to the city of Juneau. He also has sculptures in Geneva, Switzerland; Amsterdam, Netherlands; at The World Bank in Washington D.C.; at The Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta; at Merck & Co. World Headquarters in Whitehouse...