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	<title>ONE &#187; World Bank</title>
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		<title>RSVP: Keeping the Promise, Investing in the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/11/20/rsvp-keeping-the-promise-investing-in-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ambassador Goosby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might know, December 1st is World AIDS Day.  To commemorate this annual event, the World Bank will be hosting a forum in Washington, DC on &#8220;Linking HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Maternal and Child Health.&#8221;
Speakers and panelists will include US Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby, Executive Director of the Global Fund for AIDS, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaccinations at all-time high</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/21/vaccinations-at-all-time-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/21/vaccinations-at-all-time-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Coghlan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ONE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNICEF]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNICEF, the WHO and the World Bank came together today to announce that while more children are being vaccinated than ever before, nearly 24 million of the world’s most at-risk children are still not receiving life-saving vaccinations. Reaching these children will require an estimated $1 billion each year. 
The announcement came today after new data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank and IMF keep on keeping on at fall meetings&#8230; but is more needed for Africa?</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/09/world-bank-and-imf-keep-on-keeping-on-at-fall-meetings-but-is-more-needed-for-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/09/world-bank-and-imf-keep-on-keeping-on-at-fall-meetings-but-is-more-needed-for-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Jane Staats</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Center for Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ONE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The annual fall meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Istanbul this week focused on the “road to recovery” from the global economic crisis. While we didn’t see major new initiatives emerge from the meetings, the Bank and the Fund reaffirmed important commitments to help emerging market and developing countries cope with the impacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank and IMF Meetings in Istanbul this Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/02/world-bank-and-imf-meetings-in-istanbul-this-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/02/world-bank-and-imf-meetings-in-istanbul-this-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Jane Staats</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ONE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) fall meetings will take place this weekend and early next week in Istanbul, Turkey. This year&#8217;s meetings will focus on the impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries and &#8220;the road to recovery.&#8221;
Among the main points on the agenda are:

Progress and further solutions needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE&#8217;s Reaction to the Pittsburgh G20 Communique</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/09/25/ones-reaction-to-the-pittsburgh-g20-communique/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/09/25/ones-reaction-to-the-pittsburgh-g20-communique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Pittsburgh G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate and Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overall, the Pittsburgh G20 Summit appears to have made some progress towards reshaping global power structures to make them more representative, but it still has some way to go before it becomes a truly representative global decision making body. 
I spent the summit with our US Government Relations Director Tom Hart, who said:
&#8220;Moving from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda becomes top global reformer for making business easier</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/09/10/rwanda-becomes-top-global-reformer-for-making-business-easier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/09/10/rwanda-becomes-top-global-reformer-for-making-business-easier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikiko.Imai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the IFC-World Bank Doing Business 2010 report released yesterday, for the first time a sub-Saharan African country—Rwanda—was named the world’s top reformer of business regulations, based on the number and impact of reforms implemented. Doing Business is an annual report that ranks economies based on 10 indicators of business regulation that record the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happens in Africa when the economy recovers?</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/02/what-happens-in-africa-when-the-economy-recovers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/06/02/what-happens-in-africa-when-the-economy-recovers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikiko.Imai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the World Bank’s Shanta Devarajan, the Chief Economist of the Africa Region, posted a piece on “why aid to Africa must increase” on his blog.  He makes the important point that while people in rich countries regain jobs when the economy regains, the effects of the global recession on Africa will be [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Global economic crisis: A development emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/21/global-economic-crisis-a-development-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/21/global-economic-crisis-a-development-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eloise Todd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the launch of the World Bank’s Global Monitoring Report 2009 in Brussels. The report&#8217;s subtitle is &#8216;A Development Emergency&#8217;. A couple of key facts coming out of the report which, although not necessarily new statistics, serve to highlight the ‘development emergency’ as the World Bank calls it:

In 2009, growth in developing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the IMF, World Bank Spring Meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/27/reflections-on-the-imf-world-bank-spring-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/27/reflections-on-the-imf-world-bank-spring-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandler.Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMF WB Spring Meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, we headed to the final portion of the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings. Unlike the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) on Saturday, where little was discussed on what the IMF can do for the poor, yesterday, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Joint Development Committee gathered to discuss how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank boosting safety net spending</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/22/world-bank-boosting-safety-net-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/22/world-bank-boosting-safety-net-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank has announced that it will triple its social safety net spending.  This amounts to 12 billion dollars over the next two years “to help developing nations weather the global financial crisis.”
Excerpts below, full piece here
 The World Bank said it was increasing investments in social protection programs in health and education [...]]]></description>
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