Since 1988, the World Bank Group (described in the September 25, 1997 Scout Report for Business & Economics) has addressed issues of economic architecture, corporate governance, crime, land reform, and the economics of transition at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE). Currently, papers from previous ABCDE's are available online with a keynote addresses, such as by nobel...

At their annual meeting in 2000, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the Global Digital Divide Initiative and formed a task force to devise ways to engage interested international parties in a dialogue on closing the gaps between the digital haves and have-nots. This report, submitted by WEF's task force at last month's G-8 Summit, reframes that "divide" as a "global digital opportunity" and...