The World Bank is revising its Operational Directive for Structural Adjustment Lending.
World Bank Group
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Cambridge to London office
Sarah Cambridge has joined the World Bank’s London office to manage the outreach programme in the UK and Ireland.
Infrastructure
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Chad Cameroon project faces further problems
The World Bank has again delayed a decision on the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline after further criticism from NGOs in Chad, Cameroon, Europe and the USA.
Environment
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Bank’s new green indicator: “genuine nonsense”?
A new Bretton Woods Project report examines the World Bank’s new measure of national sustainability, genuine savings.
Conditionality
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IMF takes on poverty mandate
Important changes to the IMF’s remit in the poorest countries were announced at the IMF-WB Annual Meetings in September.
Rights
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Prague 2000
A small group of NGOs has begun to discuss common initiatives towards the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Prague next September.
Land
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CASE prawn-farm study
The World Bank’s project to improve the integration of the environment in its Country Assistance Strategies has a component to examine decisions made in environmental management which have had significant negative or positive impacts on economic development.
Trade
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IMF/WB/WTO: unholy trinity?
At the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in late November, the World Bank confirmed that it will expand its work on trade.
Rights
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Bank resettlement policy conversion
In July some NGOs received letters from Maninder Gill at the World Bank seeking comments on the proposed conversion of its Operational Directive (OD) on Resettlement.
Environment
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Climate proposals queried
Many NGOs wrote to the Bank raising questions about the proposed Prototype Carbon Fund, adopted by the Board in July.
Knowledge
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Independent e-conference on Poverty WDR first draft
The Bretton Woods Project will run an electronic conference to discuss the first draft of the World Bank’s Poverty World Development Report.
Conditionality
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WB-IMF orthodoxy rivalled by Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), led by its new head Masaru Yoshitomi, has mounted an attack on the IMF’s use of conventional policies for dealing with the crisis in Asia and plans to hold meetings and seminars to challenge the IMF’s approach at the Bank/Fund annual meetings.
