http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Yemen participates in IMF, WB meetings [The Source: sabanews.net - 07/10/2009] A Yemeni delegation led by Planning and International Cooperation Minister Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi has participated in annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Istanbul, Turkey. In the sidelines of the meetings, al-Arhabi took part in a meeting of a ministerial committee which dealt with the impacts of the global financial crisis on developing countries.The participants in the meeting called for increasing the efforts to face development challenges and support the private sector to create more job opportunities as well as issues of the climate change and food security.The Yemeni delegation also discussed with World Bank Managing Director Juan Daboub several issues related to the cooperation aspects between Yemen and the world bank and Yemen's efforts to face the current financial crisis.Al-Arhabi also reviewed with the director general of Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) the projects financed by the fund in different fields.In another meeting, Al-Arhabi reviewed with the chairman of Islamic Development Bank the level of implementation the projects financed by the Bank