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Jordan warned it is getting hotter and drier than anticipated +REPLAY+
LEADIN:
Studies suggest Jordan is being hit hard by climate change, getting hotter and drier than previously anticipated.
The warning comes as a separate study by 26 institutions including the WHO and the...
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World Bank CEO Sees 'Stepped Up' Climate Action Everywhere
Dec.03 -- Kristalina Georgieva, chief executive officer at the World Bank, discusses why the group has raised $200B to fight climate change over the next 5 years, if they're seeing any action from the U.S. and the commitment towards...
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What Jack Ma Thinks All Entrepreneurs Should Know
Oct.12 -- "Entrepreneurs don't cry. We make our competitors cry," said Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, held in Bali, Indonesia this year.
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World Bank Chief Economist Says Poor Nations Need Debt Forgiveness
Apr.05 -- World Bank Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart discusses the outlook for the global economy and policy amid the coronavirus pandemic. The bank's President David Malpass said Monday the Group of 20 gathering of finance ministers...
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G20 agrees measures to stabilise world food prices, sots
1. Wide of French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire addressing news conference
2. Cutaway of cameraman
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Bruno Le Maire, French Agriculture Minister:
"I am indeed happy to announce to you today that the member...
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WRAP G7 and IMF summits on Iraq
1. G7 Finance Ministers at official photo opportunity
2. Canada, British, US Finance Ministers
3. Ministerial official photo
4. British, Canadian and Germany Finance Ministers
5. Pan to other ministers
6. US Treasury Secretary John...
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World Bank spring session continues.
1. Close up as James Wolfensohn, World Bank President arrives
2. Meeting table
3. Various shots ministers
4. Wide shot news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nicholas Stern, Chief Economist of the World Bank
"I believe that the next...
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USA : WORLD BANK AND IMF WARN OF FUNDING CRISIS
The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have warned of an unprecedented funding crisis.
They fear the U-S and other wealthy nations might fail to live up to their financial obligations. According to the I-M-F...
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WRAP World financial leaders turn to sluggish world economy, poverty
1. Tight shot of Chairman sign panning to shot of Trevor Manuel, Chairman of the World Bank Development committee and Minister of Finance, South Africa with World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn
2. Wide shot of Manuel meeting with IMF...
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USA: WASHINGTON: THAI PRIME MINISTER LEEKPAI VISIT
Eng/Thai/Nat
Thailand has hammered out an economic agenda to improve the country's financial woes, following a day of meetings with the U-S President and international bankers.
The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World...
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USA: WASHINGTON: THAI FINANCE MINISTER NIMMANAHAEMINDA VISIT
English/Nat
The U-S has welcomed assurances by the Thai government that it will undertake comprehensive financial reform in the wake of the Asian economic crisis.
During a visit to Washington, the Thai Finance Minister Tarrin...
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UK/USA: G7 PROPOSALS TO STRENGTHEN GLOBAL ECONOMY UPDATE
English/Nat
The Group of Seven (G-7) leading industrial nations has announced new proposals to strengthen international financial systems in the wake of last year's Asian currency crisis.
Statements were delivered by U-K Chancellor of...
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IMF's Gaspar Says U.S. Needs Lower Tax Rates
Apr.21 -- Vitor Gaspar, IMF's director of fiscal affairs, discusses U.S. tax policy with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Scarlet Fu on "What'd You Miss?"
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IMF Managing Director Georgieva on Vaccine, Recovery, Trade
Jan.28 -- Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund speaks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene at The Year Ahead virtual summit about the most pressing issues of the day, including: equitable vaccine rollouts,...
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Natixis Chief APAC Economist on the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings
Apr.04 -- Natixis Chief APAC Economist,Alicia Garcia Herrero, discusses the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings and the prospects for the recovery in Asia. She speaks to David Ingles during "Bloomberg Markets: China Open."
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Ncube: Zimbabwe Used Gold, Platinum to Secure Credit
Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe's Finance Minister discusses the country's soaring inflation, which boomeranged back into triple digits in May.
The minister explained that Zimbabwe has social protection to feed the hungry and that the government...
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World Economies Pay the Price as Central Banks Got It Wrong
Policy makers from the Federal Reserve and its global peers are moving to hike interest rates much faster than telegraphed after recognizing they got their inflation calls wrong last year. Enda Curran examines the impact of central bank...
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World Bank: Fear of Entrenched Stagflation Is Very Real
Carmen Reinhart, senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, discusses the global fight against inflation, and the debt woes among emerging-market economies. She speaks with Kathleen Hays and Haidi Stroud-Watts on...
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World Bank warns against soaring poverty among Palestinians
Jerusalem
1. UPSOUND: (English) Nigel Roberts, World Bank Director for the West Bank and Gaza (wide pan from press to Roberts speaking at podium):
"The World Bank report we've shared with you describes a traumatised economy in which...
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RUSSIA: YELTSIN TO REMAIN IN HOSPITAL FOR ANOTHER WEEK
Eng/Russ/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to remain in hospital for up to a week - once again raising questions from opponents about his ability to govern.
The 68-year-old leader was readmitted to Moscow's elite Central Clinical...
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World Bank presser on impact of financial crisis on developing nations
1. Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank senior vice president and Chief Economist, at news conference
2. Wide of audience
3. Lin<
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank's chief economist:
"The slowdown is not only in developed...
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USA: WORLD BANK ISSUES SLOWDOWN WARNING
English/Nat
A new report released by the World Bank predicts that the per capita growth of developing countries is expected to slow down between 1998 and 2000.
It also concluded that the lesson of the East Asia crisis is for developing...
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G20 agrees measures to stabilise world food prices, sots
1. Wide of French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire addressing news conference
2. Cutaway of cameraman
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Bruno Le Maire, French Agriculture Minister:
"I am indeed happy to announce to you today that the member...