PHA-Exchange> World Bank Poverty Projections; and Global Governance

[David Woodward]

We've just produced two articles which may be of interest.
 
The first is a (fairly scathing) assessment of the latest much-hyped
poverty projections from the World Bank, "Whistling in the Dark: Why the
World Bank's Latest Poverty Projections are Meaningless". This is
available at
http://www.jubileeresearch.org/news/Comment%20on%20Global%20Ec%20Prospec
ts%202007.pdf.
 
The second is a comment piece I was invited to write for The Lancet on
US "vote-buying" in the UN Security Council (but actually extending to
the IMF, World Bank and WTO). This is availale on The Lancet web-site
(accessible from
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/section?volume=369&issue=9555&s
ection=Comment
<blocked::http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/section?volume=369&is
sue=9555&section=Comment>  - free registration required), or at
http://www.jubileeresearch.org/news/LancetCmtFinal.doc.
 
All the best
 
David Woodward
 
DID YOU KNOW? It takes $166 of global growth to reduce poverty by $1, up
from $45 in the 1980s. 
See nef's new report, "Growth Isn't Working" at
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_publicationdetail.aspx?pid=219
 


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