world bank Archive

  • Kennedy Graham

    Copenhagen 5: Supping with the World Bank - by Kennedy Graham



    Jeanette and I are at the Copenhagen Conference as part of GLOBE – Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment. Today (Tuesday) I was part of a delegation meeting with IBRD President Robert Zoellick. If you are unaware of Mr Zoellick’s career, it might be worth looking it up. read more
    December 16, 2009 11:47 am - 8 Comments
  • frog

    Mining Milford Sound? - by frog



    “Will he rule out of the review of Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act any consideration of mining potential in Milford Sound; if not, why not?” National Parks, openness, ‘hysteria’ and cartoons. read more
    October 8, 2009 10:36 am - 12 Comments
  • frog

    Greenpeace occupies palm kernel shipment - by frog



    They’re at it again! The World Bank may have changed it’s mind about funding palm kernel and the destruction of our rainforests, but Fonterra and this National-led government still have their heads in the sand. (Like so many issues, it seems) Twelve activists have boarded the Easy Ambition and chained themselves to prevent the shipment [...] read more
    September 16, 2009 10:28 am - 106 Comments
  • frog

    World economy to shrink in 2009 - by frog



    That was the BBC headline overnight, citing the World Bank as the source of the uplifting economic news that the global economy will shrink this year for the first time since WWII: By the middle of 2009, industrial output could be as much as 15% lower than 2008, while trade may record the biggest decline [...] read more
    March 10, 2009 10:53 am - 8 Comments
  • frog

    Fonterra’s baby milk tragedy - by frog



    I wonder how we would feel if a Chinese company operating in New Zealand were found to be responsible for the death one baby and made another 432 sick with kidney damage? Then the Chinese Premier steps in to defend the company, whose subsidiary had known about this for 6 months, and hopes that its [...] read more
    September 15, 2008 11:15 am - 6 Comments
  • frog

    Easy business - by frog



    08 Wire, Dancer at the Standard and Grant Robertson each saw the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business survey released yesterday and responded reflexively, either congratulating the Labour Party or putting the boot into the National Party.  While that’s a fair, if somewhat typically tribal, response to New Zealand being ranked the second easiest country [...] read more
    September 11, 2008 10:33 am - 6 Comments