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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 19, 1977
World Bank to Widen Role |
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The World Bank yesterday said that its lending operations last year had remained within the $5.8 billion ceiling enforced by the Ford administration, but sketched out for itself, with the blessing of the Carter administration, a much enlarged future role.In its Annual Report, the bank said that it made 161 loans amounting to $5,759,000.000 to 54 countries in fiscal 1977, an increase in money terms of $782 million over 1976.For the World Bank group as a whole, including the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 7, 1977
World Bank Sets Mission to Study Aid for Vietnam |
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The World Bank is sending an economic mission to Hanoi later this month in the first step toward an internationally financed program to help reconstruct war-torn Vietnam.The five-member mission headed by Edward Hawkins, one of the bank's senior economists and a British citizen, is scheduled to arrive in Hanoi, via Peking, on Jan. 18 for a month-long study of the country's economic condition, policies and needs.The dispatch of the study mission, which was discussed...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 3, 1977
World Bank Considers Loan Requests From Vietnam for Postwar Rebuilding |
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The World Bank reported yesterday that it has under consideration applications from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for subsidized loans to help rebuild the war-torn country.A bank mission returned to Washington last week after spendiing about a month in Hanoi and elsewhere in Vietnam, and described its visit "as a useful and constructive start to the bank's relationship with unified Vietnam."Bank sources said privately it is clear that the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 7, 1977
U.S., Others Agree To Raise Ceilings on World Bank Lending |
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The United States, along with other nations, has agreed to raise in the $5.8 billion ceiling on World Bank lending imposed last year by the Ford administration, Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs Anthony Solomon said yesterday.In his first interview since confirmation as the Treasury's principal official on international financial matters, Solomon indicated that the new era of cordial relations had been opened by the Carter administration with the bank and other...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 7, 1977
Bruce M. Cheek, 51, Dies, Economist at World Bank |
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Bruce M. Cheek, 51, an economist with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Deverlopment (World Bank) for more than 20 years, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Annandale.Since 1975, Mr. Cheek had been the alternate excutive director for World Bank projects in Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa and Papula, New Guinea.A native of Adelaide, Australia, Mr. Cheek was deputy director of the World Bank's West Africa department for 1969 to 1972. He served as...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 31, 1977
U.S. to Propose Creation Of World Energy Fund |
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The Carter administration will make a proposal at the May 7-8 London economic summit to create a new fund in the World Bank that could unleash energy-producing potential in less-developed countries.The fund, which could eventually amounts to $1 billion, represents a major shifts in U.S. policty from a quiet opposition to using World Bank funds for financing energy development in poor countries.The proposal, citing no specific funding level, was approved at a recent meeting of the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 5, 1977
Bank Backed By Churches to Aid 3d World |
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A new independent world bank, sponsored initially by the World Council of Churches to make low-interest loans to Third World projects lacing access to usual international funding sources, became legally operative here upon receipt of assurances from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that U.S. trust fund money can be used to buy shares in the new enterprise.At the first general meeting of the Society (EDCS), held here in conjunction with the 1977 central committee sessions of the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 23, 1977
Blumenthal Asks Cap on International Bank Salaries |
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Treasury Secretary W. Michael Bluementhal plans to ask the heads of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to put a "cap" on further increases in the tax-exempt salaries.Because of the exemption the salaries are 30 to 40 per cent higher than they look, and also about the same percentage above those paid for comparable U.S. government jobs.Bluementhal in an interview scored the bank and IMF salary levels as "excessive" and warned...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 12, 1977
World Bank Official, 58, For Personnel |
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Goetz von Gontard 58, a senior personnel officer at the World Bank, died of cancer Friday at the Washington Hospital Center.Born and educated in Germany, Mr. von Gontard, was an agriculturalist by profession and had been employed by the World Bank since 1966, serving first as a consultant on fertilizers and later as a senior agriculturalist. He held the position of senior personnel officer for the last two years.Before joining the staff of the World Bank he was employed for 14 years...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 24, 1977
Jackie Bell, Wife of World Bank Ex-Official, Traveled Widely |
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Jackie Bell, 66, the wife of Bernard [WORD ILLEGIBLE] Bell, a former regional vice president of the World Bank-International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, died of cancer Monday at her home in the Watergate East apartment complex.Mrs. Bell, a graduate of the University of California, was an native of [WORD ILLEGIBLE] Ark.She traveled the world with her husband. From 1968 to 1972, Mrs. Bell lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, while her husband was director of the World...
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