The IMF has established the Supplemental Reserve Facility (SRF) to provide extra resources to countries with balance of payments problems caused by rapid capital outflows such as those experienced in South East Asia.
International
Social services
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New Education Strategy
The Human Development Department of the World bank is preparing an Education Sector Strategy Paper (ESSP).
Conditionality
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Bank Gender Performance Criticised
The NGO network Women’s Eyes on the World Bank has produced a report examining the Bank’s efforts to bring its lending practices into line with the steps agreed at the 1995 World Conference on Women.
IFI governance
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Good Governance for BWIs
The IMF and World Bank should reform their constitutional rules and decision-making procedures and practices if they are to achieve the standard of good governance they themselves have defined for borrowing members.
Knowledge
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Measuring Knowledge
The 1998 World Development Report (WDR) will address issues of “Knowledge and Information for Development”.
Rights
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G24 should build bridges with Southern NGOs
A recent paper argues that Southern governments should foster and expand democratic dialogue with NGOs in their countries.
Rights
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Regulating or Freeing NGOs?
The Bank-commissioned Handbook on Good Practices for Laws Relating to Non-Governmental Organisations has been criticised in a report by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
