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| 22.10.2004 |  | | Fight against global poverty central to WCC and Bretton Woods institutions' agendas, but differences of view also identified
"Significant and useful" were the adjectives used today in a joint statement to describe the series of encounters held since February 2003 between the World Council of Churches (WCC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). Issued at the end of a meeting of the heads of the three organizations, the statement affirms that the encounters allowed them to improve "their mutual understanding of their positions on development and related issues", while identifying "areas of common ground but also differences of view". Read more
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| 22.10.2004 | | | WCC encounters Bretton Woods institutions:
Through critical engagement, making sure the cries of the people most affected are heard
Recalling the World Council of Churches' (WCC) foundational mandate to make "the church in every place a voice for those who have no voice" as well as its firm commitment to justice, rooted in the "ecumenical perception of God's preferential option for the poor," WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia affirmed encounters with the Bretton Woods institutions as a "critical engagement in the search for viable pathways towards global justice, so that all people can have their fair share in the common wealth of all". Read more
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| 21.10.2004 |  | | IMF and World Bank heads at WCC headquarters
World Bank (WB) president James D. Wolfensohn and International Monetary Fund (IMF) deputy managing director Agustín Carstens will join WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia and WCC president from Africa, Agnes Abuom for a high-level encounter between the three organizations to take place on 22 October, 2004 in Geneva's Ecumenical Centre. Read more
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| 19.10.2004 | | | As easy or as difficult as eating ice-cream:
What it would take to eradicate poverty from the world
The amount of money spent every year on ice-cream in the United States alone would make it possible, if it were added to what is now being done, to achieve the goal of access to primary education for all children. This was how UK government chief secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng illustrated the point that Millennium Development Goals (MDG) could be reached if rich countries really wanted to reach them. Read more
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| 2003 |
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| 04.11.2003 | | | WCC and international financial institutions
to continue encounters next year
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| 17.09.2003 | | | WCC and international financial institutions: Discussing reforms while looking forward to a fundamental shift
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| 10.09.2003 | | | WCC churches and partners to meet on IFI policies
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| 20.02.2003 | | | WCC, IMF and the World Bank to continue dialogue
First encounter described as 'historic'
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| 12.02.2003 | | | The WCC, IMF and World Bank organize a joint seminar on development
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