Bretton Woods Update No.36 September/October 2003
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News|6 August 2003
Interim report of evaluator Capra International to the heads of agencies of the Integrated Framework for trade-related technical assistance 10 July 2003 in Washington.
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News|28 August 2003
Notes from a 5 August 2003 meeting between DFID and numerous UK NGOs over plans to draft a new institutional strategy for working with the World Bank.
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Briefing|12 September 2003
The World Bank is planning a controversial major overhaul of its ten social and environmental policies.
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News|11 September 2003
The Board of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private-sector arm, is in the final stages of approval for a loan for development of the first of a series of proposed free trade zones along the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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News|12 September 2003
New papers argue that PRSPs do not widen the range of policy options for governments and may undermine existing democratic structures.
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Demba Moussa Dembele
Comment|8 September 2003
The myths of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers - that they are nationally owned, pro-poor, and poverty-reducing - should be debunked.
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News|8 September 2003
Controversy over the call for debarment of a Canadian contractor is proving a litmus test of the Bank's commitment to apply the same standards to corrupt Northern companies as it does to Southern governments.
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Inside the inst|12 September 2003
Given the recent discussion on the potential roles for multilateral agencies in Iraq, how does the World Bank operate in post-conflict situations?
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News|12 September 2003
A new report by the IMF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) highlights mistakes in the handling of three major financial crises in the late 1990s (Indonesia, Korea and Brazil).
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News|4 September 2003
A counter-report to the IMF's bi-annual World Economic Outlook has been prepared by a UK thinktank.
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News|8 September 2003
The World Bank President has pledged that the Bank will revive its support for megaprojects and a new report expresses serious concerns about the Bank's track record in this area.
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Navroz Dubash
News|8 September 2003
A critical review of the Bank's energy programmes yields interesting insights but the proposed follow-up appears to be business-as-usual.
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News|12 September 2003
Assessment of progress in the implementation of the World Bank's gender strategy.
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