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With fewer than 1,000 days until the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire, there was a lot of excitement and anticipation surrounding the World Bank and IMF spring meetings taking place in Washington, D.C., just last week. Thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations and members from academia and the private sector are invited every spring to attend meetings and seminars at the World Bank and IMF to discuss the global economy, international development and the status of the world’s financial markets.

In the midst of federal budget negotiations in D.C., ONE is even more focused than ever on ensuring that funding for life-saving programs is protected. Photo Credit: The World Bank, Flickr A big part of that effort is ensuring that resources that are allocated for programs that fight extreme poverty and preventable disease are used

Action: 61. Time: 5 minutes. Level of difficulty: Easy. The World Bank and the IMF are having their annual meeting this week to discuss international economic and financial developments, policies to strengthen inclusive economic growth and help countries overcome poverty. But this year, the World Bank wants to do something a little different: they want

The World Bank has launched a global conversation that is based on the simple question: “What will it take?” This provocative question seeks solutions to ending poverty and human suffering that will be based on crowd sourced ideas from people all around the world.

Earlier today, ONE CEO and President Michael Elliott participated in “Close the Gap: Safety Nets Work,” a live series of interviews with the World Bank to kick off the World Bank-IMF 2012 Spring Meetings. Photo credit: @WorldBankPhotos The live webcast, which included interviews with World Bank President Robert Zoellick, NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo, Dinky Soliman

In case you haven’t heard, three candidates were nominated for World Bank president in March: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister of Nigeria; Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the President of Dartmouth College; and José Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia and former under-secretary general of the UN. While the future is uncertain, one thing

This blog originally appeared on DevEx With less than 1,400 days until the Millennium Development Goals deadline, global development experts, bureaucrats and talking heads have already begun clamoring for what’s next. It seems that halving extreme poverty and slashing child deaths by two-thirds is yesterday’s news. As if these highly ambitious goals are rapidly becoming

An introductory look at the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Enhanced Social Accountability, currently under construction and inviting comments on how it can help civil society organizations hold their governments to account for more effective development. What is the Global Partnership for Enhanced Social Accountability? In April 2011, World Bank President Robert Zoellick addressed the

At ONE, you will often hear the jargon “siloed,” “cross-cutting” and “lens” when referring to our issues affecting global poverty. In reality, all the issues are cross-cutting and work hand-in-hand toward worldwide development. One lens that is important to ONE and gaining the attention of the international community is gender and its role in development

Last week, I had the huge honor of hearing Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, speak at the Society for International Development (SID) World Conference. Mr. Zoellick’s speech, which kicked off a weekend of workshops and panel discussions with the NGO community, spoke directly to SID’s mission to reappraise and challenge the fundamentals behind