"The Monfort Plan is a five-year, forward-looking plan to eradicate extreme poverty from the developing world, and … developing world, with the potential to provide basic, free, and universal services in the areas of health care, education, water … developing world - could work." "We live in a moment of crisis-one in which creative policymaking might prove useful when …

, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …

The first volume of Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) series (IEG 2009) examined World Bank experience with the … phase covers the entire World Bank Group (WBG), including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral …

development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …