The music at the farewell party for outgoing World Bank Kenya country representative Mukthar Diop…
Accountability
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From bad to worse: IFC safeguards
The serious inadequacies of the IFC's environmental and social safeguards in light of a number of IFC-supported projects
Accountability
Background
UK NGO meeting with executive director Tom Scholar: uncorrected highlights 4 April 2005
Minutes of Spring meeting with Tom Scholar and UK NGOs in London
Social services
Background
IMF in low-income countries
Chaired by Mark Plant, head of PDR The spring meetings were quiet on this issue…
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Bank facilitates illegal logging in Cambodia
According to NGOs, the World Bank has facilitated illegal logging in Cambodia, violating its own operational policies in the process.
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Further violations at IFC-backed mine
A summary of anti-mining activity in Guatemala and an update on the Marlin mine investigation by the CAO.
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IFC oil field in Kazakhstan flouts disclosure, safeguards policies
Summary of environmental health problems and human rights violations related to the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field
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Parliamentarians demand World Bank and IMF respect their authority
The international parliamentarians' petition will be launched at the spring meetings. The petition demands that…
IFI governance
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Evaluation of Bank global programmes: “poorly-defined” and excluding the poor
The World Bank’s evaluation department has released a scathing report on the Bank’s approach to global programmes, finding the approach “poorly defined” and the voices of developing countries “inadequately represented”.
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Evaluations of education, countries “under stress”
The World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department is in the early stages of evaluations of the Bank’s work in education and in so-called low-income countries under stress.
