The Bank is due to decide in the next few weeks whether to support the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline.
World Bank Group
Finance
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ESAF reforms to focus on poverty eradication
Clare Short, UK Secretary of State for International Development, has called in parliament for the reform of the IMF’s ESAF loans to make them pro-poor.
Private Sector
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MIGA policies finalised
In May the Board of Directors of MIGA, the World Bank Group’s private sector risk guarantee arm, agreed new policies and procedures.
Rights
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Poverty project endangers Tibetans
In early June the World Bank rushed to defend the proposed China Western Poverty Project from charges that it would disrupt the lives of ethnic Tibetans and had undergone too limited environmental scrutiny.
Social services
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Little new in IMF/WB pilots
Several of the pilot ESAF collaboration studies between the IMF and world Bank are in trouble, and new countries may need to be selected.
IFI governance
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Bank hires UK corporate governance expert
This summer Anne Simpson will leave Pensions and Investment Research Consultants to develop the World Bank’s corporate governance strategy for the private sector.
Rights
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Bank specialist assesses NGO networks
Kathy Bain, Latin America civil society specialist at the World Bank, has written a draft paper on The Accountability of Trans-National NGO Networks in Policy Alliances with the World Bank.
Accountability
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Board approves Inspection Panel changes
In late April, after a contentious internal review, the World Bank Board approved changes to its Inspection Panel, the forum for citizen complaints about Bank-financed projects that harm people and the environment.
Trade
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Research chief slammed for WTO role
NGOs at the WTO High Level Symposium on Trade and Development in March signed a statement expressing outrage at the way that Paul Collier (Director, Development Research Group, World Bank) chaired the session on “Linkages between trade and development policies”.
IFI governance
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New Bank NGO chief unveils plans
This spring Willy Reuben left a Costa Rican NGO to join the World Bank as head of its NGO Unit.
Land
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Brazilian land claim fails
Brazilian NGOs’ Panel claim with the Panel about the C
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