World bank articles
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World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts
World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Recently the World Bank released a handbook for asset managers on why to invest in gold. At Gainesville Coins I have written numerous articles on gold revaluation accounts and how these can be deployed by central banks to absorb losses in case of emergency. The World Bank has taken notice of my research as they allude to this practice in a chapter on reserve...
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Are the octogenarian IMF and World Bank sprightly enough for the job?
Fragile recovery, low growth, global debt, AI, the climate The organisations founded in 1944 have lots to talk about this weekThere is likely to be a sense of relief when the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their half-yearly meetings in Washington this week. Not because the world is crisis-free – it clearly isn’t – but because since they met six months ago no fresh crisis has emerged.The past half-decade has been as tough as any period in the history of the two...
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World Bank unveils new scorecard to measure accountability
Anna Bjerde, the World Bank's managing director of operations, said the scorecard would allow its shareholders and the people it serves to better see, measure and track the impact of the bank's lending and grants