CHENNAI: The World Bank, which has set up a facility in Chennai for its international back office operations, plans to increase its IT-dependent activities in the city.

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CHENNAI, India, March 29, 2012 – World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today paid a special visit to the development institution’s Chennai office to personally deliver a vote of thanks to ...

The World Bank will lend support to the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to achieve sustainable waste management in the city.

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A high-level committee from the World Bank meets Chief Minister M K Stalin in Chennai and praises the low-cost hostel 'Thozhi' for working women in Tambaram.

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“The World Bank is profitable,” he said, noting that it more than covers its own administrative costs even if most of its projects are designed to yield slim returns.

Under pressure from world leaders, development experts and shareholders, the bank opens its spring meeting on Monday, poised for big changes.