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  • What the Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast
    May 21, 2012 16:30 GMT
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  • Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality - Liveblog & webcast
    June 8, 2012 16:00 GMT
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  • Q&A: Why are Food Prices on the Rise Again?
    May 8, 2012
    José Cuesta, Senior Economist.
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  • ABCDE Conference Keynote: Transparency and Accountability: Interpreting the Evidence - Liveblog & webcast
    May 8, 2012
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  • ABCDE Conference Keynote: Live, Dead, and Fictitious Capital - Liveblog & webcast
    May 7, 2012
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  • Q&A: Why are 75% of the World's Poor Unbanked?
    May 2, 2012
    Leora Klapper, Lead Economist, Finance and Private Sector Research, The World Bank.
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  • Closing Gender Gaps in Voice and Agency - Liveblog & webcast
    May 1, 2012
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  • 5 Questions in 5 Minutes
    April 21, 2012
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  • Spring Meetings Press Briefing: Development Committee
    April 20, 2012
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  • Sanitation and Water for All - Liveblog & webcast
    April 20, 2012
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  • New Frontiers in Women's Empowerment - Liveblog & webcast
    April 20, 2012
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  • Supporting Social Accountability For Better Results - Liveblog & webcast
    April 19, 2012
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  • Closing the Gap with Financial Inclusion - Liveblog & webcast
    April 19, 2012
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  • Spring Meetings Press Briefing: World Bank President Robert Zoellick
    April 19, 2012
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  • Jobs or Growth: Which Comes First? - Liveblog & webcast
    April 18, 2012
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  • Close the Gap: Safety Nets Work - Liveblog & webcast
    April 18, 2012
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  • Robert J Shiller: Finance and the Good Society - Liveblog & webcast
    March 29, 2012
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  • How to advance women's rights in developing countries - Liveblog & webcast
    March 5, 2012
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  • Q&A: Can Emerging Economies Still Power a Global Recovery?
    March 1, 2012
    Otaviano Canuto, Vice President of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank.
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  • Vivek Kundra on Putting Open Government into Action - Liveblog & webcast
    February 23, 2012
    Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist.
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  • Q&A: Cities and Flooding - A Guide to Integrated Risk Management
    February 22, 2012
    Abhas K. Jha, Lead Urban Specialist and Program Leader, Disaster Risk Management.
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  • Social media, job growth, and microentrepreneurs - Liveblog & webcast
    February 15, 2012
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  • The Open Government Partnership: Liveblog & webcast
    February 14, 2012
    Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist.
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  • Apps for Climate Competition: Expert Help Desk
    February 14, 2012
    Apps for Climate Competition experts, .
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  • Share your views: How do you cope with high food prices?
    February 2, 2012
    José Cuesta, Senior Economist.
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  • Open Government and Transparency: The UK Experience - Liveblog & webcast
    January 30, 2012
    Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist.
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  • Share your views: What does the Middle East & North Africa region need now?
    January 10, 2012
    Inger Andersen, Vice President of Middle East and North Africa region.
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  • How countries can start and run open government data ecosystems - Liveblog & webcast
    December 14, 2011
    Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist.
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  • Q&A: Anti-Corruption
    December 9, 2011
    Leonard Frank McCarthy, Vice President for Integrity.
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  • The Aakash, India's $35 Tablet - Liveblog & webcast
    December 8, 2011
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  • Mapping & Technology to Improve Governance of Natural Resources - Liveblog & webcast
    December 6, 2011
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  • Liveblog: Rachel Kyte tweets from COP 17 in Durban
    December 2, 2011
    Rachel Kyte, Vice President of Sustainable Development.
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  • Q&A about East Asia & Pacific Economic Update, November 2011
    December 1, 2011
    Bert Hofman, Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific region.
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  • Q&A: AIDS at 30 - Continuing the Fight
    December 1, 2011
    David Wilson, Global HIV/AIDS Program Director.
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  • Niall Ferguson: "Civilization: The West and the Rest" - Liveblog & webcast
    November 18, 2011
    Niall Ferguson, Author and Professor of History at Harvard University.
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  • Q&A: Global Food Prices - Nov 2011
    November 8, 2011
    José Cuesta, Senior Economist.
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  • Aid Transparency in Climate Change and Development - Liveblog
    November 4, 2011
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  • Q&A about Higher Education in East Asia
    October 19, 2011
    Emanuela di Gropello, Lead Economist, Human Development Sector Department, East Asia and Pacific Region.
    Prateek Tandon, Economist, Human Development Sector Department, East Asia and Pacific Region .
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  • The role of Open Government Data in developing countries - Liveblog
    October 3, 2011
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  • Realizing the Demographic Dividend: Challenges and Opportunities for Ministers of Finance and Development
    September 24, 2011
    Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Vice President, Human Development Network, The World Bank.
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  • Towards a New Social Contract in the Arab World
    September 22, 2011
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  • Open Forum: Gender — Getting to Equal
    September 20, 2011
    Event host, panelists & moderators, CNN Intl's Hala Gorani, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Nike Foundation President and CEO Maria Eitel and more....
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  • Q&A: The future of open data
    September 13, 2011
    Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist.
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  • Live Q&A: Russian Economic Report: Securing Stability and Growth
    July 5, 2011
    Pedro Alba, World Bank Country Director for Russia.
    Zeljko Bogetic, World Bank Lead Economist and Country Sector Coordinator for Economic Policy for Russia.
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  • Live Q&A: Global Economic Prospects: June 2011 Update
    June 9, 2011
    Andrew Burns, Manager, Global Macroeconomic Trends Team, Development Prospects Group.
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  • Open Forum: Food Crisis
    April 14, 2011
    Food Crisis Open Forum Experts, Details on hosts, panelists and chat hosts & moderators.
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  • Webcast: World Development Report 2011
    April 14, 2011
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  • Webcast: The Challenge of Managing Crises in a Rapidly Changing World
    April 13, 2011
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  • Speech by Robert Zoellick: A New Social Contract for Development
    April 6, 2011
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  • Live Q&A: East Asia and Pacific Update
    April 5, 2011
    Ivailo Izvorski, Lead Economist.
    Vikram Nehru, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific.
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  • Arab Voices and Views
    March 21, 2011
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  • Live Q/A: Global Economic Prospects 2011
    January 26, 2011
    Andrew Burns, Manager, Global Macroeconomic Trends Team, Development Prospects Group.
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  • Online Q/A: Haiti Earthquake Recovery
    January 12, 2011
    Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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  • Sharing information: Who should have access to what and when?
    December 2, 2010
    Anders Hjorth Agerskov, Lead Specialist, Preventive Services Unit, Integrity Vice Presidency.
    Paul Haynes, Team Leader, Integrity Vice Presidency.
    Simon Robertson, Senior Forensic Data Officer.
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  • Who Should Get the Money from Settlements Involving Corrupt Multinational Firms?
    December 2, 2010
    Adrian Fozzard, Coordinator of the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR).
    Jean Pierre Brun, Senior Financial Sector Specialist.
    Tim Steele, Senior Governance Specialist.
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  • Monitoring for Results: Performance Indicators for the Enforcement of Anticorruption Laws
    December 1, 2010
    Carolina Vaira, Operations Analyst, World Bank Institute.
    David Bernstein, Senior Operations Officer, Integrity Vice Presidency.
    Francesca Recanatini, Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank.
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  • Stepping Up Prosecution of Transnational Bribery Cases
    December 1, 2010
    David Hawkes, Head, Special Litigation Unit, Integrity Vice Presidency, World Bank.
    Jeanne M. Hauch, Senior Investigator.
    Mike Stefanovic, Manager of External Investigations, Integrity Vice Presidency, World Bank.
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  • East Asia and Pacific Update - October 2010
    November 2, 2010
    Ivailo Izvorski, Lead Economist.
    Vikram Nehru, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific.
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  • Open Forum: Development Now - A Changing Landscape
    October 8, 2010
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  • Open Forum: Jumpstarting Jobs
    October 7, 2010
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  • Open Forum: Open Development Solutions
    October 7, 2010
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  • Developing Countries Act on Climate Change
    May 27, 2010
    Kseniya Lvovsky, Former Program Manager, Climate Change Team.
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  • East Asia and Pacific Update April 2010
    April 12, 2010
    Ivailo Izvorski, Lead Economist.
    Vikram Nehru, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific.
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  • East Asia and Pacific Update, November 2009
    November 12, 2009
    Ivailo Izvorski, Lead Economist.
    Vikram Nehru, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific.
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  • H1N1 and Strengthening Health Systems in Developing Countries
    October 6, 2009
    Keith Hansen, Sector Manager for Health, Nutrition, and Population in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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  • Debate: What Now? The World Beyond the Crisis
    October 2, 2009
    Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group.
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  • Information Communications Technology for Development
    July 28, 2009
    Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, Senior Economist, Global ICT Department, World Bank Group.
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  • Carbon Finance
    July 14, 2009
    Joëlle Chassard, Manager, World Bank's Carbon Finance Business.
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  • Regional Forum: Latin America and the Global Crisis Foro regional: América Latina y la crisis globa
    April 24, 2009
    Agustin Carstens, Minister of Finance of Mexico.
    Augusto de la Torre, World Bank Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean.
    Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay.
    Jorge Castañeda, Former Foreign Minister of Mexico.
    Mauricio Funes, President-Elect of El Salvador.
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  • BBC World Debate on Global Recession: A Developing World Emergency
    April 23, 2009
    Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group.
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  • East Asia and Pacific Update, April 2009
    April 16, 2009
    Ivailo Izvorski, Lead Economist.
    Vikram Nehru, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific.
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  • Remittances
    April 8, 2009
    Dilip Ratha, Lead Economist, Migration and Remittances Team Development Prospects Group, World Bank.
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  • China Quarterly Update, March 2009
    March 26, 2009
    David Dollar, Former Country Director, China and Mongolia.
    Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist, China .
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  • China Quarterly Update, December 2008
    December 1, 2008
    David Dollar, Former Country Director, China and Mongolia.
    Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist, China .
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  • Financial Crisis
    November 26, 2008
    Danny Leipziger, Former Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
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  • Helping Fragile States
    September 25, 2008
    Alastair McKechnie, Director of the Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group.
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  • Making Aid Work on the Ground; Farm Project in Uganda
    September 3, 2008
    Christine Cornelius, Program Coordinator.
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  • Food Crisis
    July 7, 2008
    Will Martin, World Bank Lead Economist on Trade Research.
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  • China Quarterly Update, July 2008
    July 1, 2008
    David Dollar, Former Country Director, China and Mongolia.
    Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist, China .
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  • East Asia Update: Testing Times Ahead
    April 8, 2008
    Vikram Nehru, World Bank Chief Economist for the East Asia & Pacific.
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  • China Quarterly Update, February 2008
    February 19, 2008
    David Dollar, Former Country Director, China and Mongolia.
    Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist, China .
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  • World Development Report 2008
    December 18, 2007
    Derek Byerlee, Consultant, Agriculture and Rural Development.
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  • East Asia Update, May 2007
    May 7, 2007
    Dan Biller, Lead Economist for the Operations and Policy Unit.
    Milan Brahmbhatt, Senior Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
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  • Opportunities for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
    March 8, 2007
    Emmanuel Skoufias, Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction Group.
    Harry Anthony Patrinos, Lead Education Economist.
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  • Fraud and Corruption
    February 22, 2007
    Suzanne Folsom, Former Director, Department of Institutional Integrity and Counselor to the President.
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  • Climate Change Call for Action
    November 20, 2006
    Bob Watson, Chief Scientist and Director for Sustainable Development .
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  • Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America
    November 7, 2006
    Humberto Lopez, Lead Economist and Sector Leader, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
    Pablo Fajnzylber, Senior Economist, Latin America & the Caribbean Region.
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  • World Development Report 2007
    October 17, 2006
    Emmanuel Jimenez, Sector Director, Human Development, East Asia.
    François Bourguignon, Consultant.
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  • East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Growth
    October 5, 2006
    Homi Kharas, Consultant.
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  • Animal Diseases: Emerging Global Threat
    June 14, 2006
    François Le Gall, Operations Adviser, Sustainable Development, East Asia.
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  • Controlling Malaria in Africa
    April 27, 2006
    Suprotik Basu, Public Health Specialist, Africa.
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  • Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals
    April 25, 2006
    Brian Levy, Adviser, Public Sector Governance, Poverty Reduction and Economic Managment .
    Mark Sundberg, Manager, IEG Public Sector.
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  • Absent Teachers and Medical Workers in Developing Countries
    March 27, 2006
    F. Halsey Rogers, Lead Economist, Education.
    Nazmul Chaudhury, Country Sector Coordinator, East Asia.
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  • A Funding Call for Malnutrition
    March 7, 2006
    Meera Shekar, Lead Health Specialist.
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  • Latin America, Poverty, and Economic Growth
    February 21, 2006
    Humberto Lopez, Lead Economist and Sector Leader, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
    William Maloney, Lead Economist, DEC.
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  • Afghanistan - Aid Effectiveness, Fiscal Outlook Need Further Attention
    January 31, 2006
    Stephane Guimbert, Senior Economist, East Asia.
    William Byrd, .
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  • Avian Flu
    December 5, 2005
    Milan Brahmbhatt, Senior Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
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  • Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
    May 31, 2005
    Gillette Hall, Senior Social Development Specialist.
    Harry Anthony Patrinos, Lead Education Economist.
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  • Peace and Poverty: Ten Years at the Bank
    May 25, 2005
    James D. Wolfensohn, Former President, World Bank.
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  • Beyond the City: the Rural Contribution to Development
    February 24, 2005
    Daniel Lederman, Senior Economist, Development Research Group.
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  • Pensions
    February 8, 2005
    Robert Holzmann, Senior Advisor, Human Development Network.
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  • Global Economic Prospects 2005: Trade, Regionalism, and Development
    November 23, 2004
    Richard Newfarmer, Consultant, Economic Policy and Public Sector, Africa.
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