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Organising for the 2000 poverty report

The 2000 Report will tackle poverty and be led by Ravi Kanbur, of Cornell University in the USA, working with a team of Bank staff including Michael Walton, Director, Poverty Reduction.

15 September 1998

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Discussions proposed on economic growth

The Bretton Woods Project has been working with Both ENDS and other organisations to discuss a possible meeting to discuss the fundamental way that the World Bank/IMF measure development: economic growth.

15 September 1998

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Controversy over knowledge development report

Drafting the 1998 World Development Report has proved so controversial that one of its co-authors resigned and the Board asked for changes which delayed its print schedule.

15 September 1998

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Official report critiques Bank poverty strategy

A new report, commissioned by the Government of Norway, reveals that the World Bank has a long way to go in clarifying and operationalising its poverty reduction objectives.

15 September 1998

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CAS analysis improves, but still limited

The quality of Bank country assistance strategies (CASs) has improved in the last two years, concludes a recent Bank review.

15 April 1998

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Are the 2015 targets realistic?

A new World Bank paper asks whether and how the international development targets (formerly known as “DAC targets”) for reducing poverty and improving social and environmental indicators might be achieved.

15 April 1998

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Bulletin dissects Bank report on the State

The April 1998 Institute for Development Studies Bulletin critiques the Bank’s World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.

15 April 1998

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Knowledge report discussions

The Bretton Woods Project is about to be sent the yellow cover draft of the Bank’s 1998 World Development Report.

15 April 1998

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Faith meets finance

In February World Bank President James Wolfensohn met the leaders of nine religious faiths to discuss views on development.

15 April 1998

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Measuring Knowledge

The 1998 World Development Report (WDR) will address issues of “Knowledge and Information for Development”.

15 January 1998