He says increasing the influence of developing nations will increase the standing of the fund and the World Bank.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The World Bank says most developing countries have made important progress toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

He says the World Bank has found that simpler rules and other regulatory reforms make it easier to do business in the Middle East.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Nick Parsons, an economist with the National Australia Bank, says the bank made the right move.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

A new World Bank report says the recession may hurt the developing world the most.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The good news: the central bank says economic activity appears to be "leveling out."

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Bank economist Jeff Chelsky says the poorest countries are in the greatest danger.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Wafa Abdel Rahman, a woman's activist with the West Bank group Filastiniyat, says Palestinian women also face cultural issues.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

A World Bank report issued this year says the average Israeli gets four times as much water as the average Palestinian.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Asian Development Bank economist Zhuang Jian says strong performance in the last two months of 2009 helped China's export surge.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

World Bank chief economist Justin Lin says the global slowdown has prevented up to 90 million people from moving out of poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

West Bank settler David Ben Moshe says the United States is appeasing the Palestinians while ignoring Israel's biblical claims to the land.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says that will not happen until Israel stops all settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

The U.S.Treasury says Bank Melli helps pay for weapons proliferation, and forbids U.S.citizens from dealing with it.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Fewer than 10 percent of adult Kenyans donate blood to the blood bank, says Dr.Margaret Oduor, national director of the National Blood Transfusion Services.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Jay Bryson,global economist at Wachovia Bank, says the central bank has accomplished some of its goals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

President Barack Obama says the lavish bonuses to bank executives show the need for the financial reforms he signed into law earlier this week.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

A spokesman for the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction says the group called for a general strike in Jerusalem and the West Bank on Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

India's Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, says the country's comfortable foreign exchange reserves prompted the Reserve Bank or RBI to invest in the precious metal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Country director Puto Kamayana says the Asian Development Bank is helping build roads, power plants,railways and irrigation systems, like this one in Kampong Thom province.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

He says the bank reacted appropriately and swiftly to the changes in the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

She says a four-year scientific study initiated by the World Bank says there is little role for genetic modification in feeding the poor on a large scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Ayumi Konishi, the Asia Development Bank's regional manager for Vietnam, says the government's success in steadying the economy has largely rested upon an $8.5 billion stimulus package.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

He also says he cannot get a business loan from the bank.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

He says he expected the bank to buy up more Japanese government bonds when he heard about the emergency meeting instead,it was what he calls a "mild" response.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

While Israel has imposed a partial freeze on construction in the West Bank, government spokesman Mark Regev says that does not apply to Jerusalem, which Israel says is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Hassan Moinuddin of the Asian Development Bank's Mekong Sub-Region Program says a warmer climate could cut almost seven percent off the region's gross domestic product by the end of this century, by reducing crops or forcing the relocation of communities.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03