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  • 13/11/2012 | Argentina

    World Bank: Middle class now rivals poor in Argentina

    Between 2003 and 2009, the number of middle class inhabitants has been doubled in Argentina, from 9.3 million to 18.6 million, according to the World Bank.

  • 18/04/2013 | Argentina

    Lorenzino attends IMF, WB annual conference

    Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino is in Washington ready to start his official activities in the margins of the 2013 International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring meeting.

  • 24/07/2012 | Argentina

    World Bank report says Argentina is the world’s top protectionist

    For the second time in the roll a study from World Bank’s Global Trade Alert points Argentina as the world’s most protectionist country.

  • 08/10/2012 | Argentina

    Cosentino heads Argentine envoy at IMF, World Bank assembly

    Finance secretary Adrián Cosentino will head the Argentine envoy that will participate at the IMF and World Bank annual assembly to be held at Japan.

  • 10/11/2012 | Argentina

    City urges Gov't to approve loan to avoid Belgrano floods

    City Cabinet Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta urged the Government to give the necessary avail so the City can get international loans which would allow to carry out works to avoid flooding in the Belgrano neighbourhood, which is usually very affected by floods.

  • 20/04/2012 | Argentina

    Lorenzino: Europe ‘should learn from Argentina’s example’

    Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino said today that Europe ‘should learn from Argentina’s example.’ The official was participating in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meeting in Washington DC and made the remarks during an interview with a local radio station yesterday morning.

  • 20/04/2012 | Argentina

    IMF says YPF's expropriation is a 'bilateral affair'

    By Carlos Burgueño
    Argentina got its first point in the diplomatic match with Spain over YPF’ nationalization. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) decided to call the conflict a “bilateral affair” and “a decision of a sovereign nation,” words pronounced by the IMF’s Latin America and Caribbean Department Director Nicolas Eyzaguirre during a news briefing at the IMF, World Bank Spring 2012 meetings in Washington.

  • 20/04/2012 | Argentina

    YPF, out of international agenda until June

    By Carlos Burgueño
    The government’s decision of nationalizing YPF will be discussed in June in Los Cabos, Mexico, during the G-20 summit. Until then, there will not be any official statements as a result of several meetings held last night in Washington by Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino with high-ranking officials.

  • 18/07/2012 | World

    World Bank chief warns no region immune to Europe crisis

    World Bank President Jim Yong Kim warned that most regions of the world will be hurt by the debt crisis enveloping the euro zone and said it was vital to protect the strong economic gains of the past decade in the developing world.

  • 21/12/2012 | World

    WB tribunal accepts Repsol complaint over YPF takeover

    The World Bank's arbitration body started moving ahead this week on a complaint by Spanish oil major Repsol over Argentina's expropriation of its controlling stake in energy company YPF.

  • 19/04/2012 | World

    Argentina's move to expropriate YPF 'a mistake,' World Bank head

    Argentina's move to nationalize local oil company YPF, controlled by Spain's Repsol, was a mistake and the wrong thing to do, the head of the World Bank Robert Zoellick said today.

  • 16/05/2012 | World

    Greece euro exit could hit Spain, Italy, Zoellick assures

    A decision by Greece to leave Europe's common currency zone would raise big questions about the impact on Spain, Italy and other euro zone countries with big debt loads that are undergoing structural reforms, the head of the World Bank said.

  • 13/06/2012 | World

    UK says Argentina's behavior remains aggressive toward Malvinas islanders

    British Foreign Minister David Lidington today condemned the actions of Argentina claiming they were not those of a 'responsible' country.

  • 11/04/2012 | World

    US pick for World Bank makes case to board directors

    In a two and a half page address made public by the Treasury Department, Kim outlined the reasons why he believed his training as a public health expert and former president of Dartmouth College equipped him with the skills needed to take over the World Bank in June when current president Robert Zoellick steps down.

  • 13/04/2012 | World

    Russia backs US nominee to head World Bank

    Russia will support Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee for the next World Bank head, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said today after meeting the candidate, who is in Moscow on his world tour to seek support.

  • 13/04/2012 | World

    Ocampo ends World Bank bid, backs Nigerian

    Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to US control of the global development institution.

  • 15/02/2012 | World

    World Bank's Zoellick to step down in June

    World Bank President Robert Zoellick said today he plans to step down on June 30 when his five-year term ends.

  • 23/03/2012 | World

    US nominates public health expert for World Bank job

    The United States has nominated a public health expert of South Korean origin as its candidate for the World Bank presidency, a job emerging market economies are contesting for the first time.

  • 25/03/2012 | World

    US World Bank pick to win broad support: Geithner

    Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee to lead the World Bank, will win broad international support despite an unprecedented challenge by candidates from emerging economies, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview.

  • 24/09/2011 | World

    World presses Europe on debt, US warns of bank runs

    The United States, China and other countries piled pressure on Europe to comes to grips with its debt crisis before it risks causing bank runs and pushing the global economy into ruinous recession.

  • 20/10/2011 | World

    IMF, World Bank to visit Libya again

    The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have visited Libya and will return there in "coming weeks" to assess economic and financial needs, an IMF spokesman said today.

  • 18/01/2012 | World

    World Bank slashes global GDP forecasts

    The World Bank warned developing countries today to prepare for the "real" risk that an escalation in the euro area debt crisis could tip the world into a slump on a par with the global downturn in 2008/09.

  • 14/09/2011 | World

    World Bank chief says world economy in new danger zone

    The head of the World Bank said the world had entered a new economic danger zone and that Europe, Japan and the United States all need to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.

  • 18/09/2011 | World

    World Bank: gender equality boosts development

    Gender equality is shrewd economics as well as a human right, the World Bank said today in a report that showed countries with better opportunities for women and girls can boost productivity and development.

  • 19/09/2011 | World

    Euro zone contagion spreading, World Bank head says

    The head of the World Bank said a drop in investor confidence was already feeding through to developing nations from a growing debt crisis in advanced economies and urged "cooperative action."

  • 18/07/2011 | World

    World Bank's Zoellick urges US drive for Doha deal

    US leadership could be the vital spark needed to revive moribund world trade talks, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said, decrying as defeatist the mindset of those prepared to see the deal fail.

  • 14/08/2011 | World

    Markets heading to new danger zone, World Bank chief warns

    The loss of market confidence in economic leadership in key countries like the United States and Europe coupled with a fragile economic recovery have pushed markets into a new danger zone, something that policymakers have to take seriously, the head of the World Bank said today.

  • 06/09/2011 | World

    World Bank's Zoellick says double-dip recession unlikely

    "I don't believe that the United States or the world will go into a double-dip but there's high degrees of uncertainty," Zoellick told reporters in Singapore.

  • 14/04/2011 | World

    World Bank: High and volatile food prices continue to threaten the world’s poor

    Driven in part by higher fuel costs connected to events in the Middle East and North Africa, global food prices are 36 percent above their levels a year ago and remain volatile, pushing people deeper into poverty, according to new World Bank Group numbers released today.

  • 14/04/2011 | World

    IMF: 'We are still at the center of a crisis'

    "We are still in a crisis, and the consequences of this crisis are still very strong, not only in Europe but importantly in Europe. The apex of the crisis is behind us but it would be part of the complacency I am trying to avoid to believe we are in a post crisis era," IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said today in Washington.

  • 10/06/2011 | World

    Clinton says not pursuing World Bank job

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was not in discussions over the top job at the World Bank and that she was not pursing the post.

  • 02/11/2011 | Latin America

    World Bank lending Brazil US$8 billion to fight poverty

    Brazil will get US$8 billion in financing from the World Bank to push its campaign to uproot extreme hardship deeper into some of the country's poorest areas, the bank said today.

  • 03/10/2012 | Latin America

    World Bank lowers LatAm growth forecast to 3%

    Economic growth in Latin America will be lower than previously estimated due to the continuing worldwide slowdown, the World Bank said in a report.


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