Interactive Infographic The 20 Major Projects Financed By BNDES in the Amazon. Screenshot from the site BNDESnaAmazonia.org The National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is the primary financier of large projects in the Amazon.

The State Bank of the Russian Empire () was the main bank of the Russian Empire from 1860 to 1917.

Agustín Carstens, the governor of Mexico s central bank, has been described as the leading prospect among the group.

Indeed, the unprecedented decline in GRA lending, the IMF s main source of income, forced the Fund to announce a 100 million cost cutting plan in April 2008. Similar financial pressures affected the World Bank, with its main source of income, IBRD lending, down 40 in 2007 from its late 1990 s levels.

ADB s major goal, however, seems to be to scale up private sector support from 15 to 50 of total bank operations.

I am delighted that this message is increasingly echoed by the political mainstream, including most recently by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.

NEW YORK The European Central Bank has finally launched a policy of quantitative easing (QE). The key question at this stage is whether Germany will give the ECB the freedom of maneuver needed to carry out this monetary expansion with sufficient boldness.

These threats may be proving counter productive to the achievement of price stability in the euro zone economy, the central bank s primary objective.

NEW YORK It is now clear that the main cause of the euro crisis is the member states surrender of their right to print money to the European Central Bank.

In each case, a major objective was to reduce the burden on the ECB, which had advanced the money by printing it and would have run into serious difficulties without help.

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And it is the ECB s credibility problem, not that of member states, that is the principal reason for unsustainably high borrowing costs in Italy, Spain, and other distressed eurozone countries.

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It was the first time that the president of the ECB has had to reveal that a decision was not unanimous.

The European Central Bank has lowered its main refinancing rate eight times, by a total of 325 basis points, to 0.75 . The Bank of Japan has twice lowered its interest rate, which now stands at 0.1 .

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The World s Central Banker

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The ECB and Its Critics

Escape from the World Bank

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The ECB Grows Up

The Naked ECB

The World Bank s Wrong Choice

WFP's independent Aviation Safety Unit was formally initiated in January 2004.

National entrepreneurial activity is calculated as the share of the labour force involved in starting a business or managing a new business that is less than 42 months old.

Writing on the World Bank blog, Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank s chief economist, argued

Premature inflationary pressures are a prime reason that both ECB presidents, the late Wim Duisenberg and now Jean Claude Trichet, have consistently pressed for structural reform in their press conferences and speeches.

The Security Council recognizes the key role played by the United Nations, including the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies, in peacebuilding alongside the international financial institutions, in particular the World Bank, bilateral donors and troop contributors.

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