At its recent annual meeting, World Bank officials spoke extensively about corruption. It is an understandable concern money that the Bank lends to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances some contractors luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted, not more prosperous.

PRINCETON Next week, NATO s 28 members will meet in Chicago for their annual summit.

PRINCETON nbsp Next week, NATO s 28 members will meet in Chicago for their annual summit.

The softness in its annual surveillance of UK economic policy has also been well known.

It can secure decent jobs and prosperity, with a sustained annual growth rate of around 2 .

The community organises group trips to participate in the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

If their calls go unheeded, they vote at the annual general meeting or with their feet.

The same month, the Bank for International Settlements said in its Annual Report that such signs are worrying.

Thus, in the Heritage Foundation s annual rankings of countries by how free and competitive their economies are, Thailand routinely comes up short.

Jack Ma Yun speaks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China September 2008.

An annual cultural festival called the Lovely Toraja showcases the ethnic group's traditional songs and dances.

IGN also ranked it as the 55th (2005) and 33rd (2007) top video game of all time overall, as well as the 34th top RPG in 2013.

At the annual Bogotá Music Market festival, also known as BOmm, many young musicians talked about the prospects for peace in Colombia.

In 1990, the Italian singer Toto Cutugno won the annual Eurovision song contest with his passionate call to Europeans to unite.

He moved to Scandinavia in his mid 20 s and plays with musicians from around the world at the annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

This is roughly the trend per capita growth rate in the advanced world in recent years. With annual income growth of 1 , a generation born 70 years from now will enjoy roughly double today s average income.

With annual income growth of 1 , a generation born 70 years from now will enjoy roughly double today s average income.

In his recent State of the Union address, President George W. Bush declared, America is addicted to oil.

Eilidh Doyle has been elected to the board of Scottish Athletics as a non executive director at the governing body's annual general meeting.

Under her direction, her family's premium sake has won gold seven times at the Annual Japan Sake Awards.

In its annual report, the EU urged Beijing to restore the trust of Hong Kong residents and the international community in the arrangements concerning the city s autonomy.

China allowed Taiwan to attend the Asian Development Bank s annual board meeting for the first time, provided it was called Taipei, China.

After World War II, the forget me not flower was again used as a Masonic emblem at the first Annual Convention of the United Grand Lodges of Germany in 1948.

Pada Surat Tahunan tahun ini, saya dan Melinda bertaruh bahwa Afrika akan dapat memberi makan dirinya sendiri selama 15 tahun mendatang.

The small blue forget me not flower was first used by the Grand Lodge Zur Sonne , in 1926, as a Masonic emblem at the annual convention in Bremen, Germany.

All the Arab entries in an annual essay contest run by a Western agency used to focus on Israel s alleged responsibility for all the region s problems.

So, because Asia lacks such institutional arrangements, personal diplomacy of the type that the Boao Forum represents, like the annual global winter gathering at Davos, remains vitally important.

Asian leaders already hold such talks annually at the East Asia Summit, an important initiative that brings together India and China, with ASEAN as host.

Indeed, in its 2006 annual review of the US economy, the IMF was extraordinarily benign in its assessment of the risks posed by the relaxation of lending standards in the US mortgage market.

So is the 19 page annual letter that describes the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world s largest philanthropy.

The International Monetary Fund, which now supports selective imposition of capital controls, seems unconcerned the rupee, its annual review concludes, is fairly valued.

In the newest release of its annual research report on the Ukrainian segment of the web, Yandex said over 40 million Ukrainian accounts over all were registered in VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook and Twitter as of this summer.

An ASEAN 8 meeting of leaders could then evolve its own modalities to suit the wider geographical group, and would not need to be held each year.

The encounter will be the first parliamentary test of Mr Corbyn's leadership, coming after his appointment of a shadow cabinet and his speech to the TUC annual congress on Tuesday.

In short, as we argued during the OECD Forum and annual Ministerial Council Meeting last week, this time we need to promote investments that focus on people and the planet.

Afghanistan is considered the world's most corrupt country, ranking roughly on par with North Korea and Somalia in an annual survey of 176 nations published on December 5 by Transparency International (TI).

Indeed, since 1991, when a balance of payments crisis loomed, India has been shedding its socialist legacies and posting 7.5 average annual GDP growth only marginally slower than China.

The inseparable pair who are the same height were commended for appearance, behaviour and style at the annual contest run by Sunnybank Equestrian Centre, in Rudry near Cardiff.

Only a year ago, at the IMF s annual meeting in Washington, DC, senior staff were telling anyone who would listen that the whole European sovereign debt panic was a tempest in a teapot.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has insisted on paying an annual visit to the Yasukuni shrine, where Japan s past aggressive wars are glorified, and where war criminals are among the buried, behavior that China s government considers unacceptable.

Since she took over as Toji 10 years ago, Machida Brewery s premium sake has won gold at the Annual Japan Sake Awards seven times.

In his annual economic report in February 2002, and again in February 2003 and February 2004, Bush confidently and wrongly predicted that his tax cut would create millions of jobs.

Mak points to a case revealed in the Surveillance Commissioner s 2009 annual report, in which the judge allowed law enforcement agents to continue intercepting communications even though they had told the judge that journalistic materials were included in the interception.

Indeed, this year's annual session of the Academy of Military Sciences saw army commanders and military theorists try to prove that a future source of conflict will be America's desire to control the world's oil rich regions.

The other day at the State of the Union speech, President Obama said, and I think we could all agree with this goal, From the first railroads to the interstate highway system, our nation has always been the first to compete.