A recent Bank document sets out the plan for implementing the conclusions of the Poverty World Development Report (WDR).
International
Social services
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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.
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.
Social services
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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.
IFI governance
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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
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.
Knowledge
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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.
Finance
Background
Capital Account Liberalization and Poverty:
Summary of a discussion hosted by the Heinrich B
Knowledge
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Response to the Gateway team
Bretton Woods Project response to John Garrison of the Gateway team.
Finance
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Go with the flows?
A meeting, organised by Bretton Woods Project and Heinrich B
Knowledge
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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.
Rights
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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.