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		<title>“Ghana Could Do Better” – World Bank Boss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghana’s rate of disbursing funds from the World Bank has been described as below average, and could be improved. The rate of disbursement is currently 15 percent instead of between 20 and 25 percent, which would have been more ideal. This was disclosed at a media interaction in Accra by the Country Director of the [...]
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		<title>World Bank: Ghana’s Economy Being Managed Prudently</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghana’s economy is benefiting from 1,113.8 million dollars approved by the World Bank to support her development efforts within the last 12 months Mr Ishac Diwan, the Bank’s Country Director, has said. Mr Diwan, who was addressing Journalists at the Bank’s Accra Office on Thursday, said the Board of Directors in June this year approved [...]
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		<title>Ghana Receives Second Tranche Of Poverty Reduction Credit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank approved on June 25, 2010 the release of the second and last tranche (US$143 million) of the Economic Governance and Poverty Reduction Credit (EGPRC). A first tranche of U$150 million had been disbursed a year earlier in July 2009 after the board approved the two tranche [...]
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		<title>World Bank Funds Locked Up At Ministries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>World Bank Lends US$175 M To Africa&#8217;s Ecobank</title>
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