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WolfowitzWolfowitz ‘tried to censor World Bank on climate change’Tuesday, August 14th, 2007By Andrew Gumbel The Bush administration has consistently thwarted efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in its calculations when considering whether to approve major investments in industry and infrastructure, according to documents made public through a watchdog yesterday. On one occasion, the White House's pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words "climate change" from the title of a ... tagged WolfowitzWolfowitz LeavesFriday, May 18th, 2007
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will step down June 30, ending a drawn-out dispute that cast a cloud over the Bank’s governance agenda. The Washington Post ...
tagged WolfowitzAdministration opens door to resignation of WolfowitzWednesday, May 16th, 2007Steven R. Weisman The Bush administration, shifting strategy in the face of mounting opposition to Paul D. Wolfowitz as World Bank president, opened the door Tuesday to the possibility of his voluntary resignation if the bank board ended its drive to declare him unfit to remain in office. But the administration's new approach — outlined in a telephone conference call between the Treasury Department in Washington and economic ministries in Japan, ... tagged WolfowitzWorld Bank Panel Finds Wolfowitz at Fault; Aide ResignsTuesday, May 8th, 2007STEVEN R. WEISMAN A committee of World Bank directors has formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion for Shaha Ali Riza, his companion, in 2005. The findings stepped up the ... tagged WolfowitzWorld Bank group voices concern over WolfowitzFriday, April 27th, 2007group of about 50 World Bank officials at the forefront of the bank’s anti-corruption fight on Thursday expressed deep concern with the crisis surrounding bank chief Paul Wolfowitz.In a letter to Wolfowitz and the bank’s board, the group called for "clear and decisive actions" to resolve the crisis "in a way that demonstrates to all our stakeholders the bank’s commitment to the highest standards of integrity in leadership and accountability." The ... tagged WolfowitzGermany ‘wants Wolfowitz to go’Monday, April 23rd, 2007![Many people have urged Wolfowitz to resign ahead of a World Bank board decision on his future [AP]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2007/4/13/1_217567_1_5.jpg "Many people have urged Wolfowitz to resign ahead of a World Bank board decision on his future [AP]")
Germany believes Paul Wolfowitz's position as head of the World Bank has become unsustainable, a German minister has told the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) ...
tagged WolfowitzWorld Bank steps up pressure on WolfowitzFriday, April 20th, 2007Krishna Guha The World Bank’s executive board on Friday ratcheted up the pressure on Paul Wolfowitz to step down as president by simultaneously promising swift action on the Shaha Riza controversy and broadening the scope of its investigations to include other issues as well. The board, which is made up of directors representing shareholder governments including the US, instructed a subcommittee of seven directors to “consider immediately arrangements made ... tagged WolfowitzWolfowitz’s World Bank deputy tells him to quitThursday, April 19th, 2007Richard Adams 
Paul Wolfowitz's tenure as president of the World Bank may be decided today by the bank's governing board, after he was ...
tagged WolfowitzWolfowitz fights for job after memoFriday, April 13th, 2007Gary Duncan Paul Wolfowitz, the President of the World Bank, was fighting for his job yesterday after being forced to make an humiliating apology for ordering a huge pay rise and a promotion for his girlfriend, an official at the bank. The board of the World Bank was meeting in Washington yesterday morning to decide the fate of Mr Wolfowitz, the controversial former US Deputy Defence Secretary, after ... tagged Wolfowitz |
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