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JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1999

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK

Optimism in adversity

VIEWPOINT

This time, let's do it right

FOCUS

The worst in living memory

New records for charity

A place to call home

Lessons learned or lessons lost?

Thirst follows the flood
Farmers without soil

A hard life gets harder

A future built on solidarity

FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING

Digital trade barriers

THE BANK IN ACTION

From wasteland to profit center



NEWSBEAT
New credits help to stem financial crisis

IMF official named IDB vice president

Donors back Peru's fight against drugs

IDB lends record $10 billion in 1998

1,800 teachers, one classroom

Round-up

THINK TANK
Home buyers fuel high finance
New plumbing for securities markets
Geography and economic destiny

EXPRESSIONS

Bright threads of a cultural tradition
Exotic festivals, just a click away

PROJECT NEWS
LATEST APPROVALS

GAZETTE
New funds for microenterprise
Capital markets
Appointments

PROTAGONISTS

A mayor to remember

 


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