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                    [Title] => WB’s Kim abruptly resigns to join infra firm
                    [Summary] =>  The World Bank Group announced yesterday that its president, Jim Yong Kim, is stepping down from his position next month, more than three years before his current term ends in 2022. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-01-09 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Czeriza Valencia 
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                    [Title] => World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announces resignation
                    [Summary] => World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced Monday (Washington time) he would step down next month, more than three years before his current term was due to expire.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-01-08 10:14:00
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                    [Title] => World Bank challenges Philippine firms to embrace integrity
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For the Philippines to become the next Asian miracle, the World Bank challenges the local business community to embrace integrity in their operations and eradicate corrupt practices.

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The Philippines has raised its complaints on the annual Doing Business report ranking to the highest official of the World Bank Group.

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The Philippines is not yet done with the World Bank and will repeat its criticisms of the Doing Business Report in a meeting today with the agency’s directors and potentially with its president through writing.

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About 5,000 international medical, training and support personnel, including 700 to 1,000 foreign health workers, are needed in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone over the coming months to treat patients afflicted with the Ebola virus.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141101/ebola-virus-3.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1382007 [Title] => Ebola outbreak threatens global economy: WB head [Summary] =>

World Bank (WB) boss, Jim Yong Kim, rang the alarming bell of Ebola outbreak which left thousands of victims in West Africa and risk to spread out outside the continent, urging boosted international cooperation to treat the deadly virus.

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President Aquino is going on a trip to Europe and the United States next month.

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A different meeting of thinking Filipinos took place in Club Filipino last Thursday. I ought to explain. Usually meetings are about people who know each other in real life.  In Club Filipino, the meeting was an interesting mix of people who were friends in real life as well as others who were friends only in the Internet. In our case, our meeting place in the Internet is a website called bayanko.org.ph which as of today has 149,590 hits and 126,846 visits.

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I confess.

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