23 June 2000 : the week in brief:

• Wolfensohn’s World Bank vision shows strains more
  
• ILO report records a sharp rise in child poverty more
  
• Blair supports proposal to end the practise of tied aid more
  
• Tobacco treaty lacks ‘biting obligations’ more
  
• WTO claims free trade is essential to reducing poverty more
• Updates on Sierra Leone and Fiji more
  
• Further news of the Zimbabwean elections more