It can also be done multilaterally, by raising the infrastructure investment flows from the World Bank and the regional development banks (including the Inter American Development Bank, European Investment Bank, African Development Bank, and Asian Development Bank).

E. International, regional and national development agencies, specialized agencies of the United Nations, the World Bank and regional development banks

Moreover, there already is a proliferation of regional development banks, from the Inter American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank to the more modestly capitalized African Development Bank. These institutions cooperate with the World Bank.

Recommends that the international, regional and national development agencies, specialized agencies of the United Nations, the World Bank and regional development banks

As part of the work on regional infrastructure, the Bank has developed a short term action plan.

The West African Regional Transit Facilitation Programme was being implemented with the support of the World Bank.

Of course, the World Bank and the regional development banks now recognize such imperatives, and the New Development Bank should not relieve the developed countries of their responsibilities.

It is located on the south west bank of the lower Ottawa River, in Vaudreuil Soulanges Regional County Municipality.

The World Bank has been facilitating these regional FLEG initiatives, along with other international organizations, donor agencies and Governments.

To date, the Bank has provided considerable resources and technical assistance to support the efforts of its regional member countries.

Pursuant to collaboration among the African Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Partnership, ECA and the World Bank, a Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity Building in Africa was launched in 2005.

Because bank financing is generally unavailable for regional projects, it estimated that official development assistance to build regional infrastructure would need to rise from 2 billion in 2002 to 11 billion by 2015.

But the Bank is also hampered by worsening resource constraints, as the biggest post crisis capital infusions went to regional development banks.

And too many regional governance mechanisms, with the important exception of the European Central Bank, lack sufficient influence, credibility, and, therefore, effectiveness.

b For activities in their own countries, financed from domestic budget resources or through loans from the World Bank and regional development banks.

To protect China s central bank from local political pressure, reformist Premier Zhu Rongji, on my and others advice in the 1990 s, reorganized the People s Bank of China along regional lines, similar to the Federal Reserve s district banks.

Nor do the World Bank and regional development banks have the in house expertise or, as a rule, the funds to provide technical assistance.

Pressure for change may also come from unfolding events in the Middle East, with regional turmoil bound to affect the West Bank and Gaza.

Almost all the projects sponsored by international and regional agencies, such as UNICEF, UNDP and the African Development Bank, were targeted at rural areas.

They belonged to a global institution, the International Monetary Fund, and to a pair of regional ones, the European Commission and the European Central Bank.

Imagine if the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and regional development banks suspended financing as soon as a government pulled down an information curtain.

Significant progress was made in working in parallel with international financial institutions. These partners include the World Bank group and regional development banks (see paras.

The UNDG office was encouraged to extend its concrete partnerships to the regional development banks in addition to its ongoing cooperation with the World Bank.

Failure to do so will result in UNDP being marginalized by other big players (WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, regional banks and the EU).

Since 2003, over 16 new banks have opened in the country, including Afghanistan International Bank, Kabul Bank, Azizi Bank, Pashtany Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, and First Micro Finance Bank.

Trade integration was initially supported by massive investments in regional infrastructure, financed to an important extent by a large, specifically created institution, the European Investment Bank.

The world today is markedly different from the world at the time of the founding of the World Bank and many of the regional development banks.

International policies, including the lending decisions of the World Bank and regional development banks, must evolve, as do the strategies of the UN and bilateral donors.

The Organization should strengthen its cooperation with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international and regional agencies in order to support development.

(b) Cost saving measures. Since January 2005, the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia handles all its non staff payments from its own local bank accounts.

In previous regional agreements, like capital subscriptions to the Asian Development Bank, China had always been treated as a second rate power and asked to contribute less.

The African Development Bank Group promoted policies and strategies aimed at increasing the efficiency, productivity and capacity of African regional transport corridors that would boost international trade.

Seventeen regional technical assistance projects were also approved by the Asian Development Bank for US 7 million to promote long term development in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

And Colombia s finance ministry has developed Findeter, a bond bank that finances regional urban infrastructure projects by providing resources to financial intermediaries that allocate them to subnational authorities.

In the eurozone, fiscal integration and pro growth regional initiatives have essentially stalled, as have banking initiatives that are outside the direct purview of the European Central Bank.

Current partners include Eurostat, ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO's Institute for Statistics, four UN Regional Commissions (ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA), the UN ICT Task Force and the World Bank.

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ICICI Bank is one of the Big Four banks of India, along with State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda.

Similar forms of partnerships will be developed with regional financial institutions, starting with the Inter American Development Bank and other organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

1.175 The regional outreach of the consumer lending in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will have been extended to Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic in 2007.

Thus, UN Habitat has established strategic partnerships with the World Bank and the regional development banks to promote pro poor investments in human settlements related to water and sanitation.

Invites the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, in collaboration with other international and regional financial institutions and the United Nations, to convene members of the international community, including affected countries, to address the medium and long term rehabilitation and reconstruction needs of the affected countries

In South Asia, the Bank was engaged in dialogue with several countries to launch a regional trade and transport facilitation survey that would pave the way for identification and implementation of specific facilitation projects, aiming in particular at better integrating regional landlocked developing countries.

Not every country s central bank not even every friendly country s central bank has been invited to join the swap lines club. Membership is restricted to the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Canada.

The Bank of Canada, BoC () is Canada's central bank.