No. 28-19, October 1999
Index
- 1999 Annual Meetings: Governors welcome recovery from crisis, endorse debt relief for poorest countries
- Managing Director's opening address: Camdessus says cooperation is essential, calls for action to ensure reforms
- Chair's opening address: Acharya stresses crisis prevention is key to raising living standards and protecting the poor
- World Bank President's opening address: Wolfensohn calls for international commitment to build new global development architecture
- World Bank President's opening address: Wolfensohn calls for international commitment to build new global development architecture
- Joint statement: Interim and Development Committees agree on need for deeper, broader, faster debt relief
- Interim Committee press conference: Brown, Camdessus hail cooperative agreement on speedy implementation of debt initiative
- Interim Committee communiqué: Ministers welcome measures to reduce poverty, call for reforms to sustain global recovery
- Group of Seven statement: Ministers welcome prospects for recovery, note that a number of challenges remain
- Group of 24 communiqué: Representatives of developing countries call for comprehensive approach to debt issues
- Development Committee communiqué: Ministers endorse approach to poverty reduction, welcome enhanced World Bank-IMF cooperation
- Managing Director's closing address: Camdessus sees "clear mandate" to integrate poverty reduction, growth issues into operations
- Managing Director's closing press conference: Camdessus reports "unanimous support" for fight against poverty, defends Russian program
- UNCTAD: Foreign direct investment rises to $4 trillion in 1998; growth is driven by mergers and acquisitions
- World Economic Outlook:After two years of crisis, report upgrades global assessment of performance and prospects