 World Bank Country Director, Ian Porter, was the guest speaker at the Nov. 13 forum hosted by the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies (IDIS), Rangsit University. During this forum, Mr. Porter briefed the audience on the World Bank’s role in global development, its contribution to the East Asia and Pacific region, and the six new strategies adopted by new World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick.
The highlight of his presentation was the World Bank’s role in the development of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). Recently, the Bank's Board of Directors has approved our regional work program for the GMS. This program aims to help GMS countries reduce poverty through strengthened economic cooperation. It also supports the work of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which has been helping GMS governments to increase regional cooperation since the early 1990s.
The new GMS program provides for additional World Bank support in four areas: regional power trade; water resource management; trade and transport facilitation; and labor migration. According to Mr. Porter, who oversees World Bank operations in four of the six GMS countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand), these areas are in line with ongoing World Bank’s assistance strategy and development partnership in each of the GMS countries.[1]
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To download Mr. Porter’s presentation, please click here
For more detail on the ADB's GMS program, please click here
For more information on the World Bank's GMS program, please contact Pichaya Fitts at pfitts@worldbank.org, or tel. +66 (0) 2686-8324
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