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This notice is posted via contacts in DFID. We can use the new technology to increase
the level of popular participation in policy making. If you are reading this on screen
then you have the technology at your finger tips. Why would you not use it?
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ON-LINE DEBATE: WDR ON POVERTY 2000/01
Between 21st February and 31st March, 2000 a global on-line debate will take place on
the World Bank's World Development Report on Poverty 2000/01 (WDR), to be independently
moderated by the Bretton Woods Project and New Policy Institute.
Please alert potential participants, particularly in the 'South', via your existing
outreach networks, particularly in governments, research institutes and NGO's.
(Submissions to the debate are welcome in French or Spanish and if required we can send
out copies of publicity material in these languages).
In September 2000 the World Bank will publish its once-a-decade World Development
Report on Poverty (see www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty
). The World Bank's research reports have a significant impact on development thinking and
programmes and generate major global press coverage. The WDR is the Bank's flagship
publication, and over 150,000 copies are printed, a large number of which will be
distributed free across the world.
For the first time ever, the Bank is widely circulating a draft WDR. The Bretton Woods
Project and New Policy Institute have been selected to independently run a global online
discussion of the draft. Significantly, the Bank is assigning great importance to the
debate, and Ravi Kanbur, lead author of the WDR will respond to the final conference
summary. Participation is your opportunity to voice comments on the draft and potentially
influence the final report.
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To SIGN UP, and for further information on how the conference will work, please see the
web-sites for