International

Knowledge

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Bank ponders poverty report implementation

A recent Bank document sets out the plan for implementing the conclusions of the Poverty World Development Report (WDR).

18 June 2001

Social services

News

Demanding Dignity

A new report - Demanding Dignity: Women Confronting Economic Reforms in Africa - from the North-South Institute, Canada, examines African women’s struggles to deal with gender-bias in financial and economic policies.

18 June 2001

IFI governance

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Study urges overhaul of international institutions

A new study from the United Nations University (UNU), an autonomous UN institution based in Tokyo, calls for an overhaul of international institutions.

18 June 2001

Social services

News

Global health fund debated

A new global fund to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria will be administered by the World Bank in collaboration with WHO and UNAIDS.

18 June 2001

IFI governance

News

A Tower of Babel on the Internet? The World Bank’s Development Gateway: Summary

A Tower of Babel on the Internet? The World Bank’s Development Gateway: Summary

18 June 2001

Environment

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New briefings on Bank policy revisions

Forest Peoples’ Programme has produced three new briefings on World Bank policy reformulation processes.

18 June 2001

Knowledge

News

Bank response to Tower of Babel briefing

This is a World Bank response to the Bretton Woods Project briefing, A Tower of Babel on the Internet.

18 June 2001

Knowledge

News

Response to the Gateway team

Bretton Woods Project response to John Garrison of the Gateway team.

18 June 2001

Finance

News

Go with the flows?

A meeting, organised by Bretton Woods Project and Heinrich B

18 June 2001

Knowledge

News

10 problems with the World Bank Development Gateway

1. The Gateway’s Topic structure reflects an aim to organise development-related information in a way that is convenient for people who see the world through official development lenses.

18 June 2001

Rights

News

Adjustment Directive consultation process still unknown

During the Spring Meetings NGOs had a disappointing meeting with Joanne Salop, Vice President for Operations Policy and Strategy.

18 June 2001