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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 ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... how the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB) saw the economic landscape panning out in 2012 when they - one after the other - lowered their global growth projections ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... third. The report validated expectations that the region would fall into recession this year. But we also know this. The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) all ...