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Finance

Background

16 April 2010 | Inside the institutions

World Bank country assistance strategies

The country assistance strategy (CAS) is the most important World Bank country-level document: it sets out the indicative level and type of assistance the World Bank Group will provide to a country, usually for a four-year period. The CAS should link a country's development priorities to selected World Bank Group support. It is also intended to promote coordination with other development partners.

Infrastructure

Analysis

19 April 2010 | Briefings

Fuelling contradictions: the World Bank's energy lending and climate change

The World Bank's energy and infrastructure lending is undermining its credibility as an institution committed to combating the impacts of climate change for the world's poor, and its attempts to play a central role in managing global climate funds.

Environment

News

17 June 2010

Resistance to Bank's role in climate finance as alternatives gain traction

As talks aim toward an agreement on climate finance in December in Cancun, fault lines remain about the role of the World Bank. Contradictions in recent Bank lending and contributions to alternative financing mechanisms have fuelled ongoing debates about the Bank’s role.

Infrastructure

Background

23 April 2010 | Minutes

Roundtable on post-crisis economic recovery

World Bank event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 22 April

IFI governance

News

26 April 2010

World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2010

Analysis of governance reforms and other decisions made at the 2010 World Bank and IMF spring meetings

Accountability

Background

26 April 2010 | Minutes

Evaluation as a critical tool for accountability

Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 23 April

Infrastructure

Background

28 April 2010 | Minutes

Meeting on the World Bank with DFID

Notes of a meeting between Rachel Turner of DFID and UK NGOs, April 2010

IFI governance

Background

29 April 2010 | Minutes

Future of the World Bank: major reforms or a series of minor adjustments?

Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 24 April

Accountability

News

17 June 2010

World Bank investment lending reform: pro-poor?

In May, the Heinrich B

Finance

News

29 November 2010

IDA - World Bank angling for increased funding

The World Bank used its October annual meetings to lobby donors to increase funding to the International Development Association (IDA, the Bank's low-income country arm), but official papers suggest the majority of increases will likely come from its own coffers, while NGOs remain sceptical.

Rights

Analysis

21 January 2011 | At Issue

At issue: The World Bank as a new global education ministry?

In early 2011 the World Bank will approve a new education sector strategy amid trends that mean that international goals on education will not be met. Zoe Godolphin of the University of Bristol argues that the Bank’s proposed approach fails conceptually because it does not accept that education is a human right. It also fails pragmatically because it continues to advocate a template approach instead of supporting genuinely country-driven priorities in education planning.

Environment

Analysis

16 March 2010 | Briefings

Climate Investment Funds Monitor 1

Donors have pledged $6.2 billion to the World Bank hosted Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) making them big players in current climate finance. The last three months have seen the Scaling Up Renewable Energy programme launched, new country investment plans endorsed by the Clean Technology Fund, and pilot countries selected for the Forest Investment Programme. A discussion paper, commissioned by the CIFs Administrative Unit has begun to look at lessons that can be learnt and incorporated in the rol