The Bank is due to decide in the next few weeks whether to support the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline.
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IFI governance
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Reinventing the World Bank
In May Northwestern University, Chicago, and SOAS, London, organised a meeting to examine the World Bank’s mission, operations and research output.
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.
Environment
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New report on problems with forest policy reform
The World Rainforest Movement and Environmental Defense Fund have produced a briefing on the World Bank’s Forest Policy Review and Strategy Development process.
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.
Conditionality
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Forest conditionality explored
A new paper from the World Resources Institute examines the World Bank’s use of adjustment lending to promote policy reform for favourable environmental outcomes.
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.
Knowledge
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WDR to tackle trade, finance, global environment
The World Bank’s 1999/2000 World Development Report, due for release in September, will contain much material of interest to NGOs working on international policy issues.
IFI governance
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Bank health loans fail check-up
The World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Unit recently criticised Bank loans for Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP).
Knowledge
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Implementing the Bank’s new “Comprehensive Framework”
The Bank has established a secretariat to coordinate work on the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), the initiative on donor coordination and integrated analysis launched in January.
Accountability
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World Bank appoints senior policy compliance advisor
The World Bank Group has appointed the first IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor/Ombudsperson.
Private Sector
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Elections “don’t matter”: says Indonesia fund manager
Foreigners may not know much about these parties, they may not care much, but at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter who wins as long as the IMF and World Bank are still calling the shots.
