One of the great ironies of the Development Committee meetings that took place at the just-ended spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, was that though Iraq appeared nowhere on the official schedule, it was in many ways at the top of the agenda. Uncertainty about money placed it there. With so much money needed for Iraq, is there any reason to believe that efforts such as the drive to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals will get the money they need? Few think so. The Development Committee is the lead group in advising the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on critical development issues. And this year, in what has become a familiar litany for sub-Saharan Africa: development indicators portray a worsening situation.