And then there is developing the bank's brand to foster cross-selling.
At the Scottish Lib Dem conference, Mr Clegg stressed the party's achievements - such as taking low earners out of tax and developing the Green Investment Bank in Scotland.
The centre was founded in 1997, with the aim of helping bank supervisors from developing countries do what is right.
World Bank lending to developing countries rose to a record high last year as it sought to combat the savage impact of Asia's financial and economic crisis on the poor.
Its starting point is the recognition that bank regulators in developing countries such as Uganda are beset by powerful interests, lack of finance, inadequate legislation, and dubious accounting and auditing standards.
Realizing that the electric car market might not take off as quickly as expected, A123 also made forays into other markets, such as developing energy storage systems to bank wind or solar electricity.
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Ecuador recently became the first country to default on its Brady bonds, which were created in the late 1980s to allow developing countries to repackage bad bank loans into new bonds backed by U.S. Treasury securities.
New World Bank President Jim Kim spoke about involving the private sector in building energy infrastructure in the developing world, and announced a World Bank program to help companies map and identify opportunities for energy investments.
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Over the past decade, these banks have spent colossal sums developing trading platforms with a single bank at its heart.
A. and director of management sciences for Wells Fargo Bank, he was developing new quantitative ways to run equity and debt portfolios.
And, perhaps most important from the World Bank's point of view, how can foreign countries, international aid agencies and the Bank itself help bolster developing countries' institutions?
Furthermore, points out Rainer Schaefer of Dresdner Bank, some big developing countries, such as Brazil and India, have boosted their domestic oil production and are therefore less vulnerable than they used to be.
The United States government quickly became the main financer of European reconstruction, and the bank shifted its focus to developing countries.
On 20 December 2012, the Government of Samoa requested support from the World Bank to work with other developing partners on a Damage and Loss assessment (DALA) as Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), reflecting on the successful and coordinated Government-led response following the tsunami of 2009.
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Elance CMO Rich Pearson has seen the number of small businesses looking to bring on professionals with skills in web and mobile programming on a project basis skyrocket over the past twelve months, unsurprising since the tech challenge du jour seems to be developing and monetizing mobile without breaking the bank.
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At least in other developing countries the government's role in bank lending has been much less overt.
To keep up with the rapidly developing economy, 13 provincial branches of the Bank of England began producing currency in the 1820's.
She said that developing countries needed to respond by beefing up bank supervision, restricting credit to fast-growing areas, imposing capital requirements that changed with the economic cycle and monitoring their foreign exchange exposures.
For the first time in the bank's history candidates from developing countries mounted a challenge to an American nominee, though in the end Mr Kim was backed by China, India, Mexico and other big emerging markets.
But back-handed support came on November 28th, when Nicholas Stern, the World Bank's chief economist, urged developing countries to act unilaterally to reduce trade barriers.
The World Bank, too, whose work in developing countries long emphasized grand infrastructure projects like dams and bridges, is now financing modest but significant improvements in the world's informal settlements.
The World Bank was designed to help countries, particularly developing ones, finance major infrastructure projects.
Overall economic growth rates in some developing countries in fact turned out much higher than the Bank expected.
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Well, if September is any indication, this nascent recovery in private bank money creation may very well be a developing trend.
The group estimates that about 1.7 billion people in the developing will have access to a cell phone but no bank account in 2012.
In developing its infrastructure program for Africa, the African Development Bank has run carbon cost scenarios and used environmental and social sustainability as part of its selection criteria.
The World Bank regards this scheme as a model for other developing countries.
She was active in developing micro-finance two decades before Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank shared the Nobel Peace prize for microcredit.
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He set up Transparency International four years ago mainly because his employer for the previous 25 years, the World Bank, was reluctant to raise the issue with developing countries.
Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs had launched an unusual, public campaign for the job, criticizing the U.S. and pocketing endorsements from a number of developing countries by arguing that a development expert should head the bank.
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