From the News! - Your Daily News » International Financial Institution http://fromthenews.net Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Zoellick and Strauss-Kahn React to Unions’ Demands on Growing Global Employment Crisis http://fromthenews.net/zoellick-and-strauss-kahn-react-to-unions-demands-on-growing-global-employment-crisis.htm http://fromthenews.net/zoellick-and-strauss-kahn-react-to-unions-demands-on-growing-global-employment-crisis.htm#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:14:57 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5258 from ITUC-CSI

Washington, 18 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine):  Commitments to strengthen social programmes for workers hit by the economic crisis and to increase action on core labour standards were made by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director… Read the rest

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WASHINGTON – The World Bank agreed Sunday to help developing countries strengthen their economies, bolster their financial systems and protect the poor against the financial turmoil in international markets.

Robert Zoellick, the bank’s president, said the contagion affecting… Read the rest

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WASHINGTON (ILO News) ? The Director-General of the International Labour Office, Juan Somavia, has called for a series of urgent and coordinated financial, social, regulatory and development measures to avert a slide into recession and address the… Read the rest

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Manila Times

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised downward its economic-growth forecast for the Philippines for 2008 and further lowered it for 2009, adding that the US financial turmoil would further decelerate economic activities in… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/imf-lowers-gdp-growth-outlook-for-philippines.htm/feed 0 Trade Unions Demand Effective Responses from the IMF and World Bank to Worsening Financial and Food Crises http://fromthenews.net/trade-unions-demand-effective-responses-from-the-imf-and-world-bank-to-worsening-financial-and-food-crises.htm http://fromthenews.net/trade-unions-demand-effective-responses-from-the-imf-and-world-bank-to-worsening-financial-and-food-crises.htm#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:14:07 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4855 ITUC OnLine

Brussels, 05 October 2008 (ITUC OnLine): With the spreading financial crisis likely to take centre stage at the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington on 11-13 October, the global trade
union movement… Read the rest

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Brussels, 05 October 2008 (ITUC OnLine): With the spreading financial crisis likely to take centre stage at the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington on 11-13 October, the global trade

union movement is… Read the rest

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has issued the second draft of its Safeguard Policy Statement, which pulls together currently separate policies on involuntary resettlement, indigenous peoples, and the environment.

The second draft of the policy… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/adb-issues-second-draft-safeguard-policy-statement-for-public-comment.htm/feed 1 IMF ripe for shakeup, Paul Martin says Former PM says credit crisis shows richer nations lack moral authority to guide world economy unchallenged http://fromthenews.net/imf-ripe-for-shakeup-paul-martin-says-former-pm-says-credit-crisis-shows-richer-nations-lack-moral-authority-to-guide-world-economy-unchallenged.htm http://fromthenews.net/imf-ripe-for-shakeup-paul-martin-says-former-pm-says-credit-crisis-shows-richer-nations-lack-moral-authority-to-guide-world-economy-unchallenged.htm#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:22:09 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4497 Kevin Carmichael
Globe and Mail

WATERLOO, ONT. — The credit crisis will spark a long-awaited overhaul of the International Monetary Fund by forcing nations such as the United States and Britain to acknowledge they lack moral authority… Read the rest

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Philippine Star

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be sending a review team to check on the country’s rice crisis as well as the government’s fiscal reform program.

The visit, which is scheduled on June 16… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/imf-to-review-rp-rice-problem-fiscal-plan.htm/feed 0 Development: Food Crisis Symptom of Dubious Liberalisation http://fromthenews.net/development-food-crisis-symptom-of-dubious-liberalisation.htm http://fromthenews.net/development-food-crisis-symptom-of-dubious-liberalisation.htm#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:49 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4216 by Aileen Kwa
from Inter Press Service

GENEVA (IPS) – The high food prices that have sparked riots in many parts of the developing world — from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh to Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Haiti —… Read the rest

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