The IMF and World Bank will participate in a commission of eminent economists chaired by Jeffrey Sachs on Macroeconomics and Health.
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Conditionality
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Chiluba attack on IMF
Zambian President, Fredrick Chiluba has blamed the IMF for Zambia’s economic problems, saying that the IMF’s reforms, advocated by rich countries, had brought unemployment and a rise in poverty levels.
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The challenge of the New Washington Consensus
A new briefing examining the Bank’s reassessment of the Washington Consensus and the influence of Stiglitz’s work at the Bank has just been published by the Bretton Woods Project and Public Services International.
Infrastructure
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Power company controversy after Orissa cyclone
A major beneficiary of World Bank-backed power sector reforms in India is US-based multinational company AES.
Infrastructure
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Bank to review India power sector reforms
The World Bank is planning an independent review of its power sector reforms in India.
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Population project fraud
A December, 1999 study by Dr. Vineeta Gupta of Insaaf International alleges serious malpractice in the World Bank’s Reproductive and Child Health Project in Punjab, India.
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Bank feels heat on waste incineration
A report launched in June condemns World Bank support for medical waste incineration.
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Bank doubts wisdom of private infrastructure
The Financial Times reported in July that World Bank East Asia Vice President Jean-Michel Severino admitted that the Bank and other organisations had been naive about the benefits of private infrastructure.
Rights
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Confronting Gender Inequities and Political Disempowerment
The Women’s Eyes campaign was launched by women’s movements and NGOs to monitor World Bank progress in bringing its lending operations in line with the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Women’s Summit in 1995.
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Education Now
Oxfam International (OI) has launched a new campaign, Education Now: Break the Cycle of Poverty, calling for high-quality universal primary education by 2015.
