At the end of June IUCN and the World Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize their partnership agreement.
International
IFI governance
News
Strategic Compact assessment
The Bretton Woods Project recently obtained two documents in which the World Bank evaluates progress of its Strategic Compact internal reform initiative and sets out strategy for the next few years.
Knowledge
News
Globalization, urbanization, environment assessed
The Bank’s World Development Report 1999-2000, due out in mid-September, will examine globalization, localization, urbanization, and environmental change, presenting their implications for institutions and for policy.
Conditionality
News
Social Principles limited to crisis situations
The Bank’s paper on best practices for implementing the social principles will be discussed by the Board on 10 September.
Environment
Analysis
Terschelling discussion groups
Days two and three of the Terschelling meeting were conducted as small breakout groups, interspersed by short plenary discussions.
Environment
News
Growth Accounting - Select Glossary
These definitions of selected growth accounting and international financial institution terms are taken from various reports, explaining especially the current World Bank usages.
Gender
News
Questioning the Growth Model - Related Readings
A selected list of materials made available at the Terschelling meeting, and some further relevant publications.
Environment
Analysis
Roleplay Reflections
At noon on the second day of the Terschelling meeting, five of us were lured away from the peak of the discussions to “role-play” a World Bank public consultation.
Environment
News
The Bretton Woods Twins: Caught in Their Paradigm
The genesis and mandates of the Bretton Woods Institutions were very specific, intended to complement each other, and primarily economic in nature. They have not changed very much in the past 50 years even though the world has changed quite dramatically.
Gender
Analysis
World Bank and IMF: Dilemmas and Opportunities
Are the World Bank and IMF now taking environmental and social issues seriously?
Environment
News
The Growth Illusion: an Update
In the seven years since the first edition of my book The Growth Illusion appeared, a positive change has taken place in the public attitude to economic growth.
Rights
News
Confronting Gender Inequities and Political Disempowerment
The Women’s Eyes campaign was launched by women’s movements and NGOs to monitor World Bank progress in bringing its lending operations in line with the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Women’s Summit in 1995.
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