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World Bank Spring Meetings 2004 documentation

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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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