The WDR 2001/2002 will focus on the institutional infrastructure necessary for a strong and well-functioning market economy.
The electronic conference on the draft Poverty World Development Report co-organised by the Bretton Woods Project in February and March attracted 1,500 participants and sparked a fascinating exchange of views.
In mid-March the World Bank launched the first of a new set of studies, Voices of the Poor.
An assessment of how gender has been incorporated into six World Bank poverty assessments reveals great variation in the way that gender is treated.
The Bretton Woods Project will run an electronic conference to discuss the first draft of the World Bank’s Poverty World Development Report.
The Bank’s World Development Report 1999-2000, due out in mid-September, will examine globalization, localization, urbanization, and environmental change, presenting their implications for institutions and for policy.
New World Bank estimates suggest that 1.5bn people live in abject poverty, up from 1.
The World Bank’s 1999/2000 World Development Report, due for release in September, will contain much material of interest to NGOs working on international policy issues.
The Bank has identified 5 main ways in which macroeconomic crises affect the poor.
The Bank’s Poverty Assessments contain “relatively little of policy relevance” because of their narrow focus on income-based poverty lines, according to a report by the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.