11 August 2000
In late May Ravi Kanbur resigned from his position as World Development Report lead author following attempts by Bank and government officials to make him change his text.
An online debate on Globalization and Poverty in May generated much interesting material.
The World Bank and IMF are urged to rethink their approaches to anti-corruption work in a new briefing.
The latest issue of News and Notices for World Bank Watchers discusses World Bank social and environmental assessments and calls for a new “dynamic assessment” procedure.
Growth is good for the poor, proclaims a much-discussed new paper of the same title by the Bank’s research department.
New BWP research finds the Word Bank's approach to Paris alignment is being used to a significant extent to impose ‘green conditionalities' on borrowing countries, especially in the Global South.
Understanding the Bank’s chequered history with public, community and civil society participation is key for understanding what is at stake and what to do next.
