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World Bank Will Protect Vulnerable Countries
WASHINGTON, DC-- 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,...Tags: Barney Frank, George W. Bush, Finance, National Government, Henry Paulson
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China feeds U.S. demand for wood as forests suffer
Tribune foreign correspondentNight and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world's busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia, the Congo. Soon, this wood will be yours. It will be your hardwood...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Disasters, Government, Wars and Interventions, Building Material
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Obama: Iraq War a distraction
The Swampby Mike Dorning On the eve of a trip to foreign capitals in the Middle East and Europe, Barack Obama delivered a lengthy foreign policy address today that sharpens distinctions with John McCain over Iraq. He left no doubt that,......Tags: Global Expansion, New York, National Government, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Government
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Global economic summit: Solutions?
The Swampby Mark Silva The global economic meltdown is beginning to sound somewhat like the crisis of global warming, something which every important industrial nation in the world must do something about, but a problem which everyone is not willing to......Tags: George W. Bush, Federal Reserve, United Nations, Macroeconomics, National Government
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Bush: Economy 'can rebound quickly'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Bush, who will convene a summit of world leaders on the economic crisis with a dinner at the White House on Friday and meetings on Saturday, will spell out his goals today in an address to......Tags: Arts and Culture, September 11, 2001 Attacks, New York, Trade Dispute, Central Bank
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Global leaders vow to avert another crisis
The Swampby Mark Silva The leaders of the world's industrial powers have concluded a hasty summit on a global economic crisis with a commitment to strengthen regulation of financial markets, bolster international monetary funds and avert any new trade barriers.......Tags: George W. Bush, Manmohan Singh, European Union, National Government, Financial Markets
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President Bush: 'Economic turmoil'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Bush has gone to Peru. But Bush, making his last scheduled trip abroad as president, has not gotten away from the economic crisis that has beset his nation and many others near the close of his......Tags: Trade Dispute, Disasters, National Government, Epidemics and Plagues, Executive Branch
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The Wolfowitz non-story
RUTH WEDGWOOD is professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies.ON TAKING office, World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz set two priorities for the world's premier development institution. He asked for a focus on Africa's persistent poverty, and he targeted corruption that diverts aid dollars from the poor....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Ethics, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Condoleezza Rice
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Eritrea aspires to be self-reliant, rejecting foreign aid
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterASMARA, Eritrea — This struggling, low-profile nation is doing something virtually unheard of in Africa. It's turning down foreign aid. With a president who vows not to lead another "spoon-fed" African country "enslaved" by international donors,...Tags: Africa, European Union, Freedom of the Press, National Government, Ethiopia
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The architect of his own collapse
Retired Col. LAWRENCE WILKERSON served 31 years in the Army and was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005. He is now a visiting professor at the College of William &WHEN I WAS ASSIGNED to the U.S. Pacific Command in the mid-1980s, we military officers would often discuss the ambassadors in our theater of operations — a huge area embracing more than 30 countries and most of the Pacific and Indian oceans. One...Tags: Iraq, U.S. Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard L Armitage, Politics
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Architects take Beijing's smog into account
Times Architecture CriticLast in a series BEIJING -- The relationship between smog and architecture is not one that critics or scholars -- or architects themselves, for that matter -- have traditionally given much thought. But in the pollution-clogged Chinese capital, the link...Tags: Arts and Culture, Air Pollution, Olympic Games, Frank Lloyd Wright, Environmental Pollution
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'Bamako'
Special to The TimesIn deciding to bring the World Bank to "trial" in the spacious, picturesque courtyard of his childhood home in Mali, gifted writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako has made one of the most powerful, urgent African films ever. "Bamako" is an attack on...Tags: Prosecution, Witnesses, Death, Economic Organization, Santa Monica
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