Tackling Corruption is Essential in Making Poverty History, says Transparency International
TI Provides Detailed Comments to World Bank’s draft strategy
Anti-corruption reform is crucial to making poverty history. Securing sustainable anti-corruption reform requires long-term strategies based on meaningful partnerships that involve civil society playing critical roles in policy and implementation. The Development Committee, meeting on 18 September at the annual meeting of the World Bank, needs to ensure that civil society is assigned an active role at the national and local level as part of the new World Bank strategy to be reviewed here, said Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption organisation with national chapters in over 90 countries. (Please continue.)
http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2006/2006_09_14_world_bank
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Upheaval at World Bank and IMF Meetings
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1352
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