Press Backgrounders Released in Conjunction with the 1999 Spring Meetings:

• Regional Data at a Glance (185K PDF)

• Is the Crisis Over? Three Regional Perspectives

• The World Bank's Role in Reviving Kosovo and Southeast Europe

• Changes in the World Bank Group Over the Last Four Years

• The World Bank Group at a Glance

• Helping Prevent Corruption World-Wide

• Post-Conflict Reconstruction

• World Bank Response to Hurricane Mitch

• The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative

For more information on the 1999 Spring Meetings, see http://www.imf.org/external/spring/1999/index.htm

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