Mr Robert Bruce Zoellick

He saluted the efforts of his predecessor, Robert Zoellick, to increase transparency at the Bank and promised more openess...

Then the finance minister went to hear Bank President Robert Zoellick describe how the economic travails of the United States and the Eurozone (some US$7...

On 21 December, Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, said it had closed its offices in Abidjan and frozen its finance facilities of $254 mn...

The World Bank’s African team dispatched a delegation to Tokyo in mid-March to boost its Japanese personnel, as part of Bank President Robert Zoellick’s ongoing reform of the institution...

Success in securing those funds from cash-strapped Western treasuries and from a cautious China (which sees itself playing an important and unilateral development role in Africa and Latin America) will be a key test of Bank President Robert Zoellick's leadership...

Senior World Bank staffers say that Manuel would be a popular candidate to replace Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank next year; his appointment would be an important symbolic shift for the Bank...

It took personal missions from the IMF managing director, Dominique Strauss- Kahn, and the World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, to Kinshasa to get the current government under President Joseph Kabila to cut back the scope of the Chinese barter deal (Africa-Asia Confidential Vol 2 No 8)...

The effort to persuade President Joseph Kabila to accept the terms for debt relief, which included scaling back Chinese countertrade projects, brought both Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Kinshasa to press their case...

This upbeat view of Africa’s growing domestic market was reinforced by World Bank President Robert Zoellick: ‘In the ten years to 2008, the private sector invested more than $60 billion in information and communication technology in Africa; 65% of Africans are now within the reach of wireless voice services and there are 400 million mobile phones in use in Africa...

They came to meet World Bank President Robert Zoellick, a former US Deputy Secretary of State and banker...