Summaries of World Bank Meetings Illuminate Proceedings (IFTI Watch)

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Summaries of World Bank Meetings Illuminate Proceedings (IFTI Watch)

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Summaries of World Bank Meetings Illuminate Proceedings (IFTI Watch)

The "minutes" of the World Bank's executive board meetings, released
publicly, are brief notations of the official action, usually one paragraph.
They reveal almost nothing about what transpired during the closed
deliberations. The "summaries," by contrast, describe the key points of
discussion. They condense, without names, the comments made by the Executive
Directors (ED). The EDs are referred to as "speakers," and other Bank
officials go by "staff." The summaries for a typical hour-long meeting run a
half-dozen single-spaced pages in length. Recently, freedominfo.org reviewed
the summaries for seven board meetings held in early 2009, from February 3
to April 7.

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