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VOICED : Niños de América Latina perdieron hasta 1,8 años de aprendizaje por pandemia
Los niños que han vuelto al colegio en América Latina después de los cierres impuestos por la pandemia se han retrasado entre uno y 1,8 años, según el Banco Mundial, que con Unicef, la Unesco y el Diálogo latinoamericano dieron el jueves...
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Australian FM on Iraq/NKorea
Washington, DC - April 2, 2003
1. Wide shot, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer at news conference
2. Cutaway, reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alexander Downer, Australian Foreign Minister
"It will have to do that in a...
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World Bank President presser on visit to Russia
1. Wide shot as James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, enters
2. Cutaway journalists
3. Wide shot press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank:
"Well, the Yukos case clearly has unsettled...
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ISRAEL: TENSIONS REMAIN BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
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A senior Israeli Likud Party member says party leader and Prime Minister-elect, Benjamin Netanyahu, must meet PLO Chief Yasser Arafat if he is serious about peace.
Tel Aviv's mayor, Ronnie Milo - a Likud moderate - has met...
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Intl donor conference discusses aid to Iraq.
1. Fountain Hotel Inter-Continental Abu Dhabi - conference venue
2. Pan to hotel
3. Wide shot, hotel
4. Panning shot, conference sign
5. Various, delegates assembling for meeting
6. Various, Arabic delegate (in glasses) speaking in...
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JAPAN: TOKYO: INTERNATIONAL DONORS PLEDGE MONEY TO INDONESIA
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International donors have given a vote of confidence to Indonesia's economy on Thursday after pledging more than 5.3 billion US dollars for development programmes.
Political stability, an annual growth rate of nearly eight...
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Palestinian leader with US lawmakers, Wolfensohn
1. Various of James Wolfensohn, the outgoing president of the World Bank and the new US envoy to MidEast, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in photo opportunity prior to their meeting
2. Wide shot of Abbas walking into House...
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EAST TIMOR: WORLD BANK PROJECT
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The president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, has arrived in East Timor for a one-day visit to sign the bank's first project commitment, a pledge of almost 20 million (M) U-S dollars for rebuilding the fledgling...
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WRAP Wolfowitz going to work, WH comment, him going home
Chevy Chase, Maryland - 16 May 2007
1. Wide of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz' home
2. Wolfowitz comes out of house, gets into car and drives off
Washington, DC - 16 May 2007
3. White House Spokesman Tony Snow enters briefing...
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USA: YASSER ARAFAT'S VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE UPDATE
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Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority, has been officially received in Washington as a national leader for the first time.
He held discussions with President Clinton and other U-S officials and then...
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Arrivals at the IMF/World Bank meeting
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1. Shots of international delegates walking towards IMF headquarters
2. Bus pulling up to IMF headquarters
3. Delegates getting off bus
4. Delegates walking towards IMF building
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A look at unemployment, a key issue at the NPC
20 February 2006
1. Zoom out from mid to wide of crowd at Beijing job fair
2. Mid of people applying for jobs at booth
3. Close up of resume (Curriculum Vitae) of university graduate
4. Resume being handed back to job seeker
5. Sign...
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KOSOVO: WORLD BANK AND KOSOVO CHIEFS MEET
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World Bank President James Wolfensohn and United Nations Administrator Bernard Kouchner held a joint press conference in Pristina on Wednesday.
Wolfensohn pledged that the Balkans would be compensated for its loses during the...
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USA: G7 SUMMIT THREATENED BY STOCK MARKET PLUNGE
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If the prospect of thousands of protesters disrupting their meetings wasn't enough, the world's top finance ministers faced a new problem on Saturday...
....How to prevent Friday's record plunge on Wall Street from...
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Robert Zoellick, head of World Bank, will travel to Australia for an Asia Pacific finance ministers' meeting and also to Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan. It is his first official trip abroad since replacing Paul Wolfowitz.
HEADLINE: World Bank chief to travel to Asia
CAPTION: The World Bank chief said Wednesday he will meet next week with Asian ministers to discuss the region's growth 10 years after a crippling financial meltdown. It is his first...
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USA : WORLD BANK REACTION TO MEXICO'S ECONOMIC CRISIS
World Bank Latin American experts say the Mexican economic crisis was a wake-up call to the Mexicans and most major economies in the region.
Despite recent apprehension over the Mexican economic crisis and it's effect on neighboring...
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Embattled head of World Bank leaves home, World Bank exteriors
Chevy Chase, Maryland
1. House of World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz
2. Close-up of doorway, door opens, Wolfowitz emerges smiling, waves to media crews, walks to car, gets in, car drives off
Washington, DC
3. Sign on wall, reads (English):...
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Wolfensohn and Fini with Palestinian leaders
1. Honour guards approaching late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's grave with wreaths, World Bank President James Wolfensohn laying wreaths
2. Wolfensohn
3. Wolfensohn walking with officials
4. Wolfensohn shaking hands with interim...
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Lagarde on state of world economy, look ahead to World Bank, IMF meetings
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that if Congress fails to raise the US debt ceiling the consequences could be severe not just for the American economy but for the global economy as well.
IMF Managing Director...
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WRAP More anti-war protest
1. Police in riot gear running alongside protesters and clashing
2. Policeman trying to keep protestors back
3. Police and protestors clashing
4. Protestor trying to wipe pepper spray out of his eyes
5. More police arriving
6. Police...
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Bosnia - World Bank Official Meets Bosnian PM
A delegation of international bankers and aid authorities on
Sunday (22/10) assured Bosnian prime minister Haris Silajdzic of
support to rebuild his wartorn country. Leading the 12-person
delegation was Kemal Dervis of the World Bank,...
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Indonesia - Head of World Bank visits
World Bank chief James Wolfensohn conceded on Wednesday that his organisation had "got it wrong" and been over-optimistic about Indonesia's economy before it sank into crisis last year.
The rupiah currency has lost some 80 percent of its...
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Preps ahead of meeting, protests, G24 photo-op
1. World Bank building entrance
2. World Bank logo
3. Police cars in front of IMF/World Bank
4. Police officers
5. Mid view police officers
6. Clock protest
7. Child deaths ticker
8. SOUNDBITE (English): Bernice Romero, Oxfam...
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UN Sec General and World Bank president meet DR Congo president
1. Plane taxiing on tarmac
2. Various of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon disembarking plane, greeting local and UN officials
3. Wide of Ban with local and UN officials
4. Various of Ban and World Bank Group President...