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Contacts : In Washington : Sergio Jellinek (202) 458-2841 sjellinek@worldbank.org Gabriela Aguilar (202) 473-6768 gaguilar2@worldbank.org Washington , DC , October 17, 2007. - Quality can have an even larger impact on economic development compared to years of schooling in the Latin American and the Caribbean countries. For this reason, raising student learning is the main challenge in a r

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Contacts : In Washington : Sergio Jellinek (202) 458-2841 sjellinek@worldbank.org Gabriela Aguilar (202) 473-6768 gaguilar2@worldbank.org WASHINGTON , October 18, 2007 -- World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick pledged the Banks support to Costa Rica as it moves to participate in the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). Following the countrys recent vot

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Multimedia Contacts: In Washington : Merrell Tuck (202) 473-9516 Mobile: (202) 415-1775 mtuckprimdahl@worldbank.org Radio/TV: Nazanine AtabakI (202) 458-1450 Natabaki@worldbank.org WASHINGTON , DC , October 19, 2007 The latest World Development Report calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries and warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the developm

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Contacts: In Washington: Merrell Tuck (202)473-9516 Mobile: (202) 415-1775 mtuckprimdahl@worldbank.org Radio/TV: Nazanine AtabakI (202) 458-1450 Natabaki@worldbank.org WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2007 The latest World Development Report says greater investment in agriculture in transforming economies, most of which are in Asia, is vital to the welfare of 600 million rural poor people livin

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Contacts: In Washington: Sergio Jellinek (202) 458-2841 sjellinek@worldbank.org Merrell Tuck (202)473-9516 Mobile: (202) 415-1775 mtuckprimdahl@worldbank.org Stevan Jackson (202) 458-5054 Sjackson@worldbank.org WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2007 In spite of the fact that subsidies from countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) represent an obstacle for L

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For information: Angie Gentile, agentile@worldbank.org , 202.473.3509 Gabriela Aguilar, gaguilar2@worldbank.org , 202.473.6768 www.miga.org WASHINGTON , DC, October 22, 2007Mexico today took an important step closer to full membership in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group. Mexican Secretary of Finance Agustn Carstens signed MIGAs Conven

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Fourth Meeting of the Interim Scientific, Technical and Advisory Committee (ISTAC) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean Region (LBS Protocol)

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