Present: Meg Taylor, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman; Amar Inamdar, Senior specialist; Kate Kapiski; and other CAO…
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Rights
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Indigenous policy undermines rights
Summary of the recent paper by UK-based NGO Forest Peoples Programme regarding Indigenous peoples and the World Bank: experiences with participation
Accountability
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Dam review 5 years on: lessons not learned
Brief update of some of the key concerns and projects in relation to Bank-funded hydropower five years on from the WCD and the Bank's failure to adopt many of the WCD recommendations
Accountability
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Pick and choose:Bank on extractive recommendations
Summary and highlights of IFC's response to civil society regarding the implementation of the World Bank Group's own recommendations of the Extractive Industry Review (EIR)
IFI governance
Commentary
Giant taming: 10 years of the Bretton Woods Project
Director, European Network on Debt and Development; Coordinator, Bretton Woods Project, 1995-2004
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World Trade Organisation
Multilateral trading organisation comprising of 142 countries (as of July 2001) who accede to four major treaties governing almost every area of trade. Ascension into the WTO binds all members to all treaties and all provisions within the treaties (subject to a few minor exceptions) although grace periods are granted to individual members states as to when implementation of treaty provisions take place. The four main WTO agreements are: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); and Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS).
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Prior Actions
A type of conditionality. These conditions must be applied before a government has access to IMF lending.
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Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Document which outlines actions the government intends to take to develop a full a full Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). It also contains details of intended macroeconomic policy reforms and may also include information on the country's poverty situation.
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European Development Fund
A source of funding for development projects in Europe: mainly used to co-finance: productive investment leading to the creation or maintenance of jobs; infrastructure; local development initiatives and the business activities of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Bank Procedures
World Bank guidelines providing parameters for implementing policies.
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Supplemental Reserve Facility
A facility to provide financial assistance for countries experiencing exceptional capital account problems resulting from a sudden and disruptive loss of market confidence.
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Performance Criteria
Conditions on IMF loans which must be implemented in order to access the money.
