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Below is comprehensive roundup of Spring Meetings-related postings.
Development Committee Press Briefing
With Development Committee Chairperson Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank
President James D. Wolfensohn, and IMF Deputy Managing Director AgustРЅn Carstens
Development Committee Communique
The Development Committee Communique is available in:
Also of interest:
Photos from the Development Committee Meeting
Development Committee Documents
Also of interest:
Development Committee Website: http://www.devcommittee.org
Education for All Press Briefing
The press briefing featured World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn,
Netherlands Development Minister Agnes van Ardenne, Canadian Minister for
International Cooperation Aileen Carroll, UK International Development
Secretary Hillary Benn, Niger Finance Minister Ali Lamine Zene, French
Development Minister Xavier Darcos, Norwegian Development Minister Hilde
Johnson, and Chairman of the Global Campaign for Education Kailash
Satyarthi
Also of interest:
World Bank Education for All website:
http://www1.worldbank.org/education/efa.asp
Latin America Press Briefing
Press Briefing on Latin America with David de Ferranti, the World Bank
Regional Vice President for Latin America and the
Caribbean, and Guillermo Perry, the World Bank Chief Economist for the
Latin America
and the Caribbean Region.
World Development Indicators 2004
The World Development Indicators 2004 (WDI) is the World Bank's annual
statistical report. According to the 2004 WDI, the proportion of people
living in extreme poverty (less than $1 a day) in developing countries
dropped by almost half between 1981 and 2001. But while rapid economic
growth in East and South Asia has pulled over 500 million people out of
poverty in those two regions alone, the proportion of poor has grown, or
fallen only slightly, in many countries in Africa, Latin America and
Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Global Monitoring Report
The Global Monitoring Report 2004 will be the centerpiece of discussions
by the Development Committee, the joint Ministerial body of the World Bank
and the IMF, during this year's Spring meetings. The Global Monitoring
Report 2004 warns that, on current trends, most developing countries will
fail to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals that serve as
targets for the global effort to reduce poverty and improve services for
the poor by 2015. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to scale up action,
on the part of all parties: rich and poor countries, and the international
financial institutions such as the Bank and Fund.
Press Conference with James Wolfensohn
Global Development Finance 2004
According to the annual World Bank report, Global Development Finance
2004, net private capital flows to developing countries as a whole
rebounded to $200 billion in 2003, up from $155 billion in 2002, but most
of the increase is concentrated in just a few relatively better-off
countries, while official development assistance to poor nations increased
only marginally.
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