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30 Sep 2017, 10:00 am
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A Vietnamese Court began issuing verdicts [Vietnam Net report] and sentences Friday in an ongoing anti-corruption case for members of Ocean Bank, with former CEO Nguyen Xuan Son being sentenced to death for embezzlement. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 6:07 pm
One of my favorite teams is team CSC (now CSC-Saxo Bank) and its rider Frank Schleck is just 1 second behind the overall leader at the moment. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 3:03 am
â-º Women constitute around 60% to 80% percent of the export manufacturing workforce in the developing world, a sector the World Bank expects to shrink significantly during the economic crisis. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 8:20 pm
Youtube video by the World Bank on their program to bring livestock insurance to herders in Mongolia: Right at the end there is a short sequence where they show solar panels and micro wind generators enabling the herders to run cell phones, which makes a big difference for them. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 9:38 pm
Programming note: My son and I will be attending tonight's game five of the 2008 World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 5:33 am
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 4:35 am
(ACResolution.)Related posts: International Monetary Fund Announces New Ombuds; World Bank Appoints a Third Ombuds; Survey of Conflict Resolution Systems in International Financial Organizations Notes Importance of Ombuds Programs. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 11:32 am
At the Southern African Chief Justices Forum in Kampala, Odoki pointed to surveys [Daily Monitor report] by the World Bank and the World Economic Forum [official websites] that rank African countries below other countries with respect to judicial independence. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 1:00 am
For those struggling to think through that question, a recent policy research working paper by Michael Woolcock (World Bank - Development Research Group), Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge), and Vijayendra Rao (World [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 5:33 am
From HuffPost: Around the world, women in 155 countries face legal restrictions on the economic opportunities available to them, according to the recent World Bank Group's reportWomen, Business and the Law 2016, which highlights the challenges women face in the... [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 4:36 am
Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikram S. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 6:51 pm
World Bank – July 8, 2015 — “Some 136 countries are now investing in social safety nets and the number is growing. [read post]
20 May 2009, 2:20 pm
Measure DHS is a useful supplement to the World Health Organization, UNICEF and World Bank statistics Web sites. [read post]
3 Dec 2007, 6:30 am
The closet thing the world has to a secret cartel running the world is the investment bank Goldman Sachs, whose alums are routinely Treasury secretaries, high advisers to presidents, and occasionally a governor or United States senator, says Ben Stein — half jokingly — in his weekly column in The New York Times While he notes [...] [read post]
4 Sep 2024, 10:09 am
On August 28, 2024, the CFPB issued a consumer advisory warning that many video games and “virtual worlds” increasingly resemble traditional banking and payment systems that allow the storage and exchange of billions of dollars in assets, including virtual currencies. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 11:00 am
A blowup at a superleveraged fund in Japan can quickly reverberate to New York and much further afield; a bank collapse in London can leave trading counterparties around the world twisting in the wind. [read post]
1 May 2011, 12:38 am
The World Bank has agreed to a S220 million loan in 2010 to support wind farm projects. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 7:48 am
The first machine was installed briefly at the World Bank’s bookstore. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 11:00 am
Foreign bank accounts and assets are increasingly common in today’s world. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm
Regulators in America and across Europe have joined together to expand their investigation into potentially improper precious metals trading as part of a broader, expanded effort to combat price fixing and rate manipulation around the world. [read post]
