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World Bank (IBRD & IDA)

Official Documents

  •  Zoellick talks about bank's challenges as he assumes presidency, The World Bank news and broadcast, July 3, 2007 (World Bank website)
  •  China and America: Power and Responsibility, Asia Society Annual Dinner, Robert B. Zoellick as U.S. Trade Representative, New York, February 25, 2004

    Issues and Options for Improving Engagement Between the World Bank and Civil Society Organizations The World Bank, 2005, (Acrobat Pdf 298 KB)

    Civil Society Analysis

  •  BIC’s Toolkits for Activists (available for download in multiple languages) 

  •  World Bank Gets Another U.S. Crusader, by Tom Barry, July 6, 2007, Americas Program Report 

  •  Robert Zoellick and the World Bank: Putting the Fox in Charge of the Hen-House, by David Woodward, nef (the new economics foundation), May 30, 2007 

    Robert Zoellick: United States Trade Representative, International Gender and Trade Network

    Indigenous Peoples & World Bank Projects: Independent Community Guide to the World Bank's Indigenous Peoples Policy (OP/BP 4.10) Forest Peoples Programme. Also Available: en Español, en Français:. Available soon in Hindi.

    World Bank Suspends Loans to Chad – “Model” Oil Project on the Rocks Oxfam International Statement on World Bank and Chad Oil Project, January 6, 2006

    Chad's Oil Revenue Management Experiment in Crisis by the Bank Information Center, Friends of the Earth, Environmental Defense, and Oxfam International (Bank Information Center website)

    Critique of the World Bank’s December 2004 Draft revised policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP4.10), Forest Peoples Programme, Dec. 4, 2004 (FPP web site). Also available: Español.

    BIC Comments on World Bank Civil Society Engagement Paper, Bank Information Center, March 2003 (Acrobat pdf 212 KB)

    Responsible Reform of the World Bank, BIC et al. 2001 (Acrobat pdf 483 KB)

    The Death of Development? The Converging Policy Agendas of the World Bank and the World Organization, Bank Information Center, 1999

    How Project Campaigns Influence Policy Changes at the World Bank, BIC 1999 (Acrobat pdf 285 KB)

    Press

  •  Zoellick backs World Bank's role, BBC News, July 6, 2007 (BBC website)

  •  Welcoming Zoellick to the World Bank, Business Day, July 4, 2007 (Business Day website)

  •  Applause greets Zoellick at World Bank, The Economic Times, July 3, 2007 (Economic Times website)

  •  How I'd fix the World Bank, by Jeffrey Sacks, Fortune magazine guest columnist, June 26 2007 (CNN Money website)

    Chad says wants to use oil money to buy weapons Reuters, April 19, 2006 (ABC News website)

    Muttering at the World Bank by Paul Blustein, February 8, 2006 (Washington Post website) Groups appeal to World Bank unit over Newmont mine by Lesley Wroughton, January 30, 2006 (Reuters website)

    Why a World Bank oil project has run into the sand by David White, January 22, 2006 (Financial Times website)

    Chadians React to World Bank Loan Suspension by Joe Bavier, Voice of America, January 8, 2006 (www.voanews.com)

    World Bank Suspends Loans to Chad Over Use of Oil Mone by Celia W. Dugger, the New York Times, January 7, 2006 (NY Times website)

    World Bank Cuts Off Aid To Chad in Oil Dispute; Nation Won't Yield On Pipeline Revenue by Paul Blustein, Washington Post, January 7, 2006 (Washington Post website)

    Wolfowitz Suspends World Bank Loans to Chad , by Reuters, January 6, 2006 (Reuters website)

    World Bank Suspending $124M in Chad Loans by Harry Dunphy, Associated Press, January 6, 2006 (www.washingtonpost.com)

    Chad May Alter Its Pledge on Oil Funds by Paul Blustein, Washington Post, December 30, 2006 (www.sfgate.com)

    Breaking the Oil Curse The New York Times, December 16, 2005 (New York Times website)

    Useful Web Pages

  •  Robert Zoellick, Wikipedia
  •  U.S. State Department Biography of Robert Zoellick

  •  World Bank President, news updates and commentary on the World Bank president selection process and nominee Robert Zoellick

  •  BIC's Comments on the World Bank’s Country Systems Approach
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