World Bank Governance and Anticorruption Strategy

Civil society analysis

• The World Bank's strategy on governance and anticorruption: a civil society perspective, by CIDSE, August 2006 (CIDSE website)
• Civil society letter to Paul Wolfowitz, Eurodad, Latindad, Afrodad and CIDSE, July 31, 2006 (CIDSE website)
• Responsible Financing or Unwarranted Interventions: Fiduciary Obligations in Loan and Aid Contracts between Donor, Client States and Citizens. Celine Tan for EURODAD.
• Governance and Anti-Corruption Reforms in Developing Countries: Policies, Evidence and Ways Forward. Mushtaq Husain Khan.
• Demystifying ‘Good Governance”: an Overview of World Bank Governance Reforms and Conditions. Angela Wood for Trocaire.
• A Discussion Paper on Aid and Good Governance. Kavaljit Singh.
• Making Governance Work for the Poor. UK Department for International Development white paper.

World Bank

• World Bank Governance and Anticorruption Strategy feedback website 
• World Bank Governance and Anticorruption website 
• Strengthening Bank Group Engagement on Governance and Anticorruption. The World Bank. September 8 draft. (World Bank website)

Press

• Wolfowitz on French charm offensive as bank seeks cash, by Anna Willard, Reuters, October 18, 2006 (Yahoo News)

• How Paul Wolfowitz is struggling to lead the World Bank, by Simon Robinson, Time, September 20, 2006 (www.time.com)

• Corruption debate rages on, by Lucy Conger, Emerging Markets, September 20, 2006 (www.emergingmarkets.org)

• Benn beats World Bank chief over corruption policy, by Philip Thorton, The Independent, September 19, 2006 (The Independent website)

• Wolfowitz reined in by ministers, by Gary Duncan, The Times, September 19, 2006 (http://business.timesonline.co.uk)

• The Trouble with the Bank, by Anthony Rowley and Simon Pirani, Emerging Markets, September 18, 2006 (www.emergingmarkets.com)

• Wolfowitz Corruption Drive Rattles World Bank, by Steven R. Weisman, The New York Times, September 14, 2006 (New York Times website)

• World Bank in corruption amnesty, BBC News, August 7, 2006 (BBC News website) 

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