Robert Zoellick, the head of the World Bank, told the Asia Society’s annual dinner in Sydney that the US and Europe were stuck in the economic slow lane. Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images
Global stock markets are entering a “new danger zone”, the head of the World Bank has warned in a scathing critique of economic leadership in the US and Europe .
Robert Zoellick said the global economy was going through a multispeed recovery with western economies stuck in the slow lane...Read Full Story
WASHINGTON ( Reuters ) - World Bank chief Robert Zoellick Tuesday said global food prices have reached dangerous levels that could complicate fragile political and social conditions in the Middle East , and warned that their impact also bears watching across Central Asia . World Bank data released Tuesday showed higher food prices has pushed 44 million more people into extreme poverty since June 2010 in developing countries. Zoellick said although higher food prices were not the main reason...Read Full Story
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick indicates that risks to the global economy are intensifying, with the euro region’s outlook dependent on European leaders making the right decisions. He speaks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin in Singapore. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick indicates that risks to the global economy are intensifying, with the euro region’s outlook dependent on European leaders making the right decisions. He speaks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin in Singapore. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick discusses the global economy, the prospects for a "double-dip" recession in the U.S. and expectations for the euro zone. He talks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin in Singapore.Read Full Story
Germany risks becoming the “target of ire” in Europe with its demands for austerity to address the debt crisis, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has fallen short on leadership in the euro ...
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Israel should use its expertise to help the World Bank offer agricultural and technological assistance to developing nations, the international lender’s president, Robert Zoellick said. Zoellick cited Israel’s growing ...
Sikorski will discuss these expectations with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democrats parliamentary leader, and World Bank president Robert Zoellick, among others. Zoellick even went a step further in a recent interview with the Financial Times.
Robert Zoellick spoke as the annual Munich Security Conference opened with a discussion of economic heavyweight Germany's role in Europe and beyond — a reflection of the fact that, as conference organizer Wolfgang Ischinger put it ...
Jan. 27 - World Bank President Robert Zoellick says he doesn't believe the global economy will fall into recession but says the euro zone, especially Italy and Spain, will be the most critical issues of 2012. (Rough Cut - No Reporter Narration)
Robert Bruce Zoellick ( IPA :Â ) (born July 25 , 1953 ) is the eleventh president of the World Bank , a position he has held since July 1 , 2007 . He was previously a managing ...
OSAKA, Japan - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is urging other Group of Eight industrialized nations to back a special fund of up to US$10 billion to provide money for developing nations to fight global warming. The threats of climate change ...