Bank accounts, authority and policy

And how does official lending respond? , World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2392 (Washington, DC World Bank).

World Bank UNCTAD Conference on Competition Policy and International Trade

The World Bank discussed the revision of its policy on indigenous peoples (conversion of Operational Directive (OD) 4.20 to draft Operational Policy (OP) Bank Procedures (BP) 4.10).

Renewal of the policy will cost 18,900 in 1998 (t) Bank charges ( 48,000). Provision is requested to cover bank charges in 1998

The opportunity for future cooperation with the Bank has been opened up with the approval of the Bank Group apos s Urban Development Policy.

In economic policy reform, the World Bank is working to help Governments undertake economic, policy and regulatory reforms that discourage corruption and fraud.

11 Martin Ravallion, Pro Poor Growth A Primer , World Bank Policy Research Paper, March 2004.

World Bank, Toward Gender Equality The Role of Public Policy (Washington, D.C., 1995), p. 28.

The Bank was helping countries integrate climate change concerns into policy making and investment planning.

In principle, the answer is straightforward. If a central bank has two policy targets, then it needs two instruments monetary policy to influence aggregate demand, and regulatory policy to limit financial risks.

The minutes released by the Bank of Japan earlier on Monday showed that the policy committee of the Bank of Japan discussed the problem of rising costs of the long term easing policy at the interest rate meeting in September.

London School of Economics (LSE) (November 2004), Presentation of the results of the Economic Policy Programme Towards an economically viable Palestinian State executive summaries , London World Bank (July 2002), Long term Policy Options for the Palestinian Economy . Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Office.

(d) Strengthening country level cooperation and policy coordination, enhancing collaboration and exchange of information in relation to the formulation of Country Strategy Notes, Common Country Assessments, Policy Framework Papers (tri partite World Bank, IMF, host country), and Country Assistance Papers (World Bank)

(c) Côte d Ivoire FAO is involved in the preparation of an environmental information policy with the World Bank

(c) Côte d Ivoire FAO is involved in the preparation of an environmental information policy with the World Bank

The approach of the World Bank to corruption issues is coordinated by the Operations Policy Department. The Department is responsible for ensuring consistency in operational policy and processes of the World Bank and is also the central reference point for governance and public sector management.

The policy would be implemented first in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, where the situation was most pressing.

Also, a national youth policy is being developed by the Government with the support of UNICEF and the World Bank.

The World Bank has prepared an internal study on drug control issues, intended to guide its policy on the matter.

World Bank (2002). The State of Corporate Governance experience from country assessments, Mierta Capaul and Olivier Fremond, Policy Research Working Paper.

Israel must, in particular, renounce its policy of developing settlements and halt the construction of the wall on the West Bank.

CGAP has also collaborated on World Bank projects in several countries to leverage the Bank s ability to create enabling policy environments.

But China s monetary policy has been hamstrung by the tightly managed exchange rate regime. This regime prevents the central bank the People s Bank of China (PBC) from taking appropriate policy decisions to manage domestic demand, because interest rate hikes could encourage capital inflows and put further pressure on the exchange rate.

The minutes showed that another member of the board said that due to the limits of policy duration, the committee should discuss how long the Bank of Japan can maintain the incentive policy.

Other organizations following a different policy approach, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, also had an important role.

The Israeli policy of closures had dealt a particularly damaging blow to the local economy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In collaboration with the World Bank, UNCHS (Habitat) has prepared and distributed several policy and research papers on key urban management issues.

The Bank of England s policy interest rate has remained just above zero for more than two and a half years. Regardless of the government s fiscal policy stance, this interest rate cannot move below zero.

(d) Financial reforms to encourage employment creation should cover banking, the non bank financial sector, monetary policy, financial openness and the institutional environment.

Also see Dollar, D. and Kraay, A. (2001) Trade, growth and poverty , World Bank Policy Research Department, Working Paper No. 2615, Washington DC.

The Committee s meetings provide a formal, international arena for policy discussions among senior bank managers and 26 NGO leaders from around the world.

The policy and practice of the World Bank and other multilateral development banks should be consistent with internationally recognized human rights of indigenous peoples.

The Bank of Japan continues to maintain an easy money policy, with the official discount rate at the record low level of 0.5 per cent.

But the UK government could and undoubtedly would veto any such adaptation of the Bank of England s responsibilities for monetary policy, financial stability, and banking supervision. Any other conceivable model of monetary union including one based on a central bank as unaccountable as the European Central Bank would be subject to the same rejection.

Japan s incoming government has already signaled an economic policy pivot, relying on what it directly controls (fiscal policy), together with pressure on the Bank of Japan, to relax the monetary policy stance, in an effort to generate faster growth and higher inflation. In the process, officials are weakening the yen.

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(a) Global Conference on Connectivity in Africa, bringing together policy makers, regulators, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations and the private sector, including Internet service providers, to be held in collaboration with the World Bank and the African Development Bank in June 1998

Indeed, from the Bank of Japan s dramatic policy U turn to the Bank of Mexico s surprise interest rate cuts, the Fed s approach is affecting central banks in a growing number of countries. Pushed further away from best case scenarios, they are unable to ignore the global liquidity impact of the Fed s policies, yet they lack the right policy tools to address it.

That implies the introduction of equity in international economic policy making, including at the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the Bank for International Settlements.

Humanitarian Emergency Policy Group, OCHA, UNRWA, The Humanitarian Impact of the West Bank Barrier on Palestinian Communities Update No. 4 (Jerusalem, OCHA, 1 September 2004), p. 23.

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NEW HAVEN In economic policy, as in most other areas, actions speak louder than words. By cutting its benchmark policy interest rates on November 21, the People s Bank of China (PBOC) has underscored the tactical focus of the government s stabilization policy, which aims to put a floor of around 7 on GDP growth.

A central bank is not a university economics department, where diversity is almost invariably a source of strength. External observers are bound to try to read policy messages between the lines of any publication, which may not always help the bank to achieve its objectives.

At present, women could get a loan for their business from the Women Union's Fund, Women's Saving Credit Group, Saving Day for Poor Women funds, and preferential loans for poor households, Poverty Reduction Fund, Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Bank for Social Policy etc.