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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 27, 1977
George Kalmanoff Dies, Deputy At World Bank and Economist |
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George Kalmanoff, 60, deputy director of the World Bank's industrial projects department, died Saturday at the University of Alabama Heart Center.A native of New York City, he had attended the City College of New York where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also did graduate work in economics at American University here.Before joining the World Bank in 1965, Mr. Kalmanoff had worked as an economist for...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 3, 1977
Botching the Aid Bill |
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A LARGE MAJORITY of the House of Representatives had drawn up a list of the countries that it doesn't want the World Bank to help. It has added a list of agricultural projects that it doesn't want the bank to underwrite. And it has hammered these lists into the foreign-aid appropriations bill - "a very serious mistake," as President Carter correctly put it in his Thursday press conference.This majority in the House consists of a highly...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 30, 1977
A Radical Doctrine From - Yes - McNamara |
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Robert S. McNamara, the distinguished establishmentarian who leads the World Bank, may not strike you as one of the world's leading revolutionaies, but he qualifies for such an entitlement after his speech at the bank's annual meeting earlier this week.In their thinking about development, he and a good part of what you could call his class have not abandoned their emphasis on working through established channels of governments, and the international institutions...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 27, 1977
Buy More From Poor, Rich Asked |
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World Bank president Robert S. McNamara yesterday called on the rich industrial nations to accept a $60 billion increase annually in the level of manufactured goods they import from poor nations by 1985.Although sources said that this influx would "displace" about 3 million jobs in the major countries in that period, McNamara said that the industrial world could tolerate such a burden with the use of "adjustment assistance" measures.In...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 15, 1977
World Rebound Called Slower Than Expected |
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Worldwide economic recovery has been slower than was expected a year ago, largely because of "the disappointing behavior of capital investment," according to the annual report of the International Finance Corp., published yesterday.The IFC is the World Bank affiliate set up to assist poorer member nations by promoting the growth of the private sector of their economies.In the year ending June 30, the IFC approved investments totaling $258.9 million in 20...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 15, 1977
Economic Job for Brandt Proposed by McNamara |
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World Bank President Robert S. McNamara proposed yesterday that former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt head a new private commission to help settle economic issues dividing rich and poor nations.McNamara made the suggestion at the World Affairs Council in Boston, where he received the group's Christian A. Herter Memorial Award. A text of the speech was released by the World Bank in Washington.He repeated his assessment given last October at the annual meetings of the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 1, 1977
Witteveen Optimistic on U.S. Economy |
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The 32nd joint annual sessions of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ended yesterday with an optimistic appraisal by IMF Managing Director H. J. Witteveen of U.S. economic prospects, despite its persistent trade and current account deficits.Witteveen told a press conference that the exchange rate of the dollar "has remained remarkably stable" because of large capital inflows (much of it from the surpluses of the oil producing countries.) He...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 29, 1977
Criticism Over Surplus Doesn't Faze Japanese |
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Things are mostly smooth and non-abrasive at this year's annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. But almost without exception, accusatory fingers are pointed at Japan for running a current account surplus of $9 billion with the rest of the world.Being the "heavies" in this situation has not fazed the Japanese, however. Inscrutable as always, they acknowledge the problem, promise to look into it - but make no hard and fast...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 26, 1977
Reduce Account Surplus, Ministers Tell Japanese |
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Japan has come under strong pressure from other major powers to reduce its enormous current account surplus, it was learned yesterday as 3,000 delegates gathered here for the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The meeting begins today.At a Saturday night dinner meeting of the finance ministers of the so-called "Big Five" - Japan, West Germany, the United States, France and Great Britain - Japanese Finance Minister Hideo Boh was...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 14, 1977
Ahmad S. Naimie |
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Ahmad S. Naimie, 47, had been on the staff of the World Bank here since 1971 and was a senior architect at the time of his death.Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, he studied for seven years in Munich, Germany, where he earned a master's degree in architecture from the Techinsche Hochschule.Mr. Naimie worked as an architect in Vienna, Frankfurt, Switzerland, New York City and Cleveland before joining the World Bank in Washington.He is survived by his wife, Waldy, of the home... |
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