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Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
They just won't stop coming, do they? Yes them, the bad news. This time it came courtesy of the World Bank (WB). The WB went on a chopping spree - slashing its growth outlook for the Asia and the Pacific region to 7.2% this year and 7.6% in 2013 - down ...

Water an alternative with yield

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... and commodities companies search for water supplies to run operations from a supply pool which is inherently limited. World Bank estimates predict that demand for food will rise 50% by 2030, pushed up by population growth, rising affluence and changing ...

Farm land a viable alternative

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... plant, and where to locate." Food prices around the world rose 10% from June, to July of this year, said data from the World Bank's recently released Food Price Watch report. Drought in the U.S. has resulted in vast damages to the summer crops of corn ...

Offshore tax havens bank $32tr: report

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... collectivity they own more than $12 trillion in funny money that's evading tax," he said. The report used data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and the world's central banks. Reuters reports the author says private ...

Indonesia woos infra investment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... development in infrastructure as part of a broader plan to ensure the country's economic growth is properly supported. The World Bank has been warning for years that the country's weak infrastructure in energy and transport was impeding the flows necessary ...

All eyes on Germany ahead of Greek elections

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... fiscal co-ordination and oversight and insisted "financing growth with new borrowing must stop." The president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, has also weighed in, saying that Germany had "no choice" but the lead Europe out of its debt crisis. Zoellick ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is due to be released and the World Bank gives its latest review of the East Asia and Pacific regional economy. In equities news, Myer Ltd is due to post its third ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Repent - or shall I say, sell - for the end is nigh! I can hear someone gloating... and this time it isn't moi. It's the World Bank. Four months ago (January), the World Bank warned in its Global Economic Prospects report of, "a downturn so severe it ...

US retains World Bank leadership

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
World economies have reacted to news the US has retained its hold of the presidency of the World Bank following a vote. The executive directors of the World Bank Group voted Dr. Jim Yong Kim as president for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2012. ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... than three months ago that we read theage.com.au warn of the "Ugliest' of times ahead" as it went to town with the World Bank's (WB) latest Global Economic Prospects report - released in January - that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse ...