But a new World Bank report says aid programmes are beset by corruption, bad administration and under-payments.
Last year, a World Bank report said attempts by the Indian government to combat poverty were not working.
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According to a World Bank report released last year, South Asia is the least integrated region in the world.
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Guatemala has a high murder rate - put at 45 per 100, 000 in a 2011 World Bank report.
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But the World Bank report refers to other uses of mobile tech valuable to farmers hoping to get ahead.
The World Bank report said that Asia remains a bright spot in the world economy, and not just China.
Brazil in particular could be compromised by Chinese competition in sectors such as cars, according to a recent Inter-American Development Bank report.
Other large, mostly unsecured loans were made to Saudi tycoon Adnan Khashoggi and the late "biscuit king, " Rajan Pillai, according to the bank report.
Since 2006, the year the World Bank report takes as the starting point of piracy, exports of fish products from piracy-hit countries have declined by 23.8%.
This mammoth World Bank report assesses the imminent costs of climate change in three east megacity ports: Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City.
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The new bank report calculates that about 830 million people throughout the Asia Pacific region lack safe drinking water and over two billion lack sanitation facilities.
On the very same day of the Deutsche Bank report Herr Dr. Jens Weidmann, president of the Bundesbank, gave a speech entitled Money Creation and Responsibility.
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An earlier World Bank report showed that, though South Africa is less entangled in red tape than many other countries, its companies find it harder to hire and fire.
According to a Swiss National Bank report in May, UBS and Credit Suisse had about 3% of their cross-border exposure in Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece, as of 2010.
According to Dahlia Khalifa, one of the World Bank report's authors, an important way in which Mexico and other reformers have cut the burden on business is to shift bureaucratic tasks online.
Some analysts, looking at a recently released Chinese central bank report, think the Chinese will adjust the currency's value in the spring or the summer, but the evidence of the intention to do so is ambiguous at best.
What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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The World Bank report goes to great pains to argue that the proverbial angry young man in a poor country resorts to violence not because it is lucrative, though it sometimes can be, but because it provides a source of dignity not dissimilar to that provided by gang membership in poorer parts of the developed world.
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Today, JPMorgan Chase ( JPM) was the first big U.S. bank to report fourth-quarter earnings.
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Analysts were looking for the bank to report 16 cents a share.
These thresholds are different from those for the annual Foreign Bank Account Report form, which is due separately to the U.S. Treasury by June 30.
Finance ministers from the five countries have been directed to look into the idea of the development bank and report back at the next summit, Singh said.
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The sizable investment for Goldman in ICBC makes it necessary for the investment bank to report its profit or loss from this investment at the end of every quarter.
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The 2007 World Bank ESMAP report cited earlier gave its vote to renewables principally because of what the authors saw as a quicker drop in the costs of development and maintenance compared with conventional power sources.
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The bank will soon report data on international bank lending quarterly, rather than just twice a year, and it hopes to help spot incipient crises by providing information on borrowers' obligations at home as well as abroad.
In one case that my partner and I worked many years ago at a regional bank, this premise was illustrated when an elderly depositor called the bank to report an apparent accounting error of about twenty dollars in interest in her IRS 1099 for her two Certificates of Deposit.
All of the other ELA debt was contracted under the Facility Deed which according to the Anglo Irish Bank Annual Report 2010 is an unsecured loan facility guaranteed by the Minister for Finance who separately benefits from a counter indemnity from the Bank should the guarantee be called upon.
An internal Bank of Italy report, obtained by Italian media, details how a Bank inspection team first learned of the risky nature of the derivatives contracts on a visit to the bank from May to August 2010.
The latest Bank of Scotland report signalled the strongest increase in permanent appointments for a year.
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