BIC's page on transparency at the World Bank
BIC's page on the World Bank and climate change
Official Documents
Zoellick talks about Bank's challenges as he assumes presidency, The World Bank news and broadcast, July 3, 2007 (World Bank website)
Issues and Options for Improving Engagement Between the World Bank and Civil Society Organizations The World Bank, 2005 (Acrobat Pdf 298 KB)
Report of the Portfolio Management Task Force (Wapenhaus Report) The World Bank, 1992 (Acrobat pdf, 11 MB)
Government Documents
Civil Society Analysis
Survey of Civil Society Participation in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Role of the World Bank Bank Information Center, February 2010 (PDF, 250 KB)
House Committee on Financial Services examines transparency at the World Bank, September 17, 2009 (BIC website)
World Bank energy sector lending: encouraging the world's addiction to fossil fuels, By Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, Bank Information Center, February 2009 (PDF 3055.7 KB)
West Bank & Gaza Country Study, Bank Information Center, February 2009 (Acrobat PDF 189 KB)
Accountability and Participation in the Design of World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Projects: Starting Down the Road from Rhetoric to Action, By Wellington Almeida, Kari Hamerschlag, Fabien LeFrancois and Vince McElhinny (Bank Information Center), CARE International UK, November 2008 (PDF, 812KB)
BIC’s Toolkits for Activists (available for download in multiple languages)
Assessment of International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Extractive Industries Transparency Implementation (Joint BIC and Global Witness publication assessing the transparency of IMF and World Bank extractive industries.) October 1, 2008
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.
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).
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
How I'd fix the World Bank, by Jeffrey Sachs, Fortune magazine guest columnist, June 26 2007 (CNN Money website)
Muttering at the World Bank by Paul Blustein, February 8, 2006 (Washington Post website)
Why a World Bank oil project has run into the sand by David White, January 22, 2006 (Financial Times website)
Breaking the Oil Curse The New York Times, December 16, 2005 (New York Times website)
Robert Zoellick
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
Zoellick backs World Bank's role, BBC News, July 6, 2007 (BBC website)
Useful Web Pages
Robert Zoellick, Wikipedia
U.S. State Department Biography of Robert Zoellick (outdated)
BIC's Comments on the World Bank’s Country Systems Approach