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    <title>BIC Updates: Azerbaijan</title>
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    <description>The latest news on Azerbaijan from the Bank Information Center</description>
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      <title>IMF working group drafts guidelines for sovereign wealth funds</title>
      <description>On July 9-10, 2008, the International Monetarty Funds’s (IMF) Working Group on Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) held a two-day meeting in Singapore to address concerns around SWFs and consider possible guidelines.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3849.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kazakhstan signs BTC agreement into law, plans new pipelines</title>
      <description>Kazakhstan has signed into law a 2006 agreement to transport oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, while making plans to connect its oil to the BTC route through additional domestic and trans-Caspian pipelines.   </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3804.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #14</title>
      <description>Recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to activities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in Azerbaijan.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3792.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The EBRD’s Annual Meeting in Kiev</title>
      <description>Read highlights from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) Annual Meeting, held last month in Kiev, Ukraine. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3787.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:52:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>World Bank sets up $1.2 billion facility for food aid</title>
      <description>The World Bank announced today that it has set up a financing facility in the order of $1.2 billion to assist with the global food crisis.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3784.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:16:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EBRD approves new policies</title>
      <description>The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved new Environmental and Social Policy as well as a Public Information Policy, a week before the EBRD Annual Meetings.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3767.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:37:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Struggle over succession at the EBRD</title>
      <description>A struggle over selecting the successor to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has divided donor and recipient countries in a manner that is reminiscent of the recent debates over succession at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3705.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #13</title>
      <description>Recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to activities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in Azerbaijan.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3499.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:57:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #12</title>
      <description>Recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to activities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in Azerbaijan.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3114.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:11:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Discussion Paper: Azerbaijan’s Continued Struggle with Poverty and Oil Dependence</title>
      <description>This paper assesses a decade of IFI operations in Azerbaijan and how those operations have performed in relation to the goal of economic diversification – a main objective of IFI lending programs and the main priority of Azerbaijan's poverty reduction program.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2934.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:41:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #11, July 2006</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2898.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:23:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #10, May 2006</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2805.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #9, February 2006</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2643.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:32:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New report on BTC refutes claims of poverty reduction</title>
      <description>Report released on October 11, ahead of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline opening ceremony in Tbilisi, Georgia  details the infringements detected in the construction phase of the Georgian section of the BTC pipeline and the problems – many of them with long-term implications – faced by Georgians during the implementation of the project.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2402.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #7, July 2005</title>
      <description>The Azerbaijan Country Update provides information about recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to International Financial Institution (IFI) involvement in Azerbaijan.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2221.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:27:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ADB Safeguards Policy Review:  NGOs recommend thorough and participatory process</title>
      <description>Independent assessment of Safeguard Policies implementation also recommended.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2241.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:07:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ADB launches Safeguard Policies “Update”</title>
      <description>Asian Development Bank announces plans to review policies on Involuntary Resettlement, Indigenous Peoples, and Environment.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2234.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:46:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BTC pipeline celebrates first oil</title>
      <description>The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was officially opened on May 25 with Presidential ceremony.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2131.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2005 15:21:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azerbaijan Country Update #6, May 2005</title>
      <description>The Azerbaijan Country Update provides information about recent developments, decisions, and civil society activities related to International Financial Institution (IFI) involvement in Azerbaijan</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2124.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 12:41:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases March update on Azerbaijan</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1996.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:59:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EBRD calls for comments on Azerbaijan Country Strategy</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1901.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:08:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases February update on Azerbaijan</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1881.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases November update on Azerbaijan</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1764.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:52:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases overview report of MDB investment in Azerbaijan through May 2004</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1545.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:58:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases update #2 on MDB activities in Azerbaijan- May 2004</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1445.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2004 10:37:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases update #1 on MDB activities in Azerbaijan</title>
      <description>This update supplements the original October report titled "Multilateral Development Investment in Azerbaijan Through September 2003."</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1333.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:34:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report issued on the public disclosure and consultation process in Azerbaijan</title>
      <description>CEE Bankwatch Network has released its report, "Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey pipeline systems: An evaluation of the public disclosure and consultation process." </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.631.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:13:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BIC releases report on MDB investment in Azerbaijan</title>
      <description>This report titled, "Multilateral Development Investment in Azerbaijan," was written to help interested organizations understand the scope of MDB activity in Azerbaijan and access information about specific projects.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.737.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:59:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oil Union files corruption charges against the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.663.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:15:04 GMT</pubDate>
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