Focus on South Asia (Bretton Woods Project)

Nepal climate loans: an injustice

Comment|Keshab Thapa|18 November 2011|update 78|url

The Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), part of the World Bank-housed Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), intends to provide frameworks for integrating climate resilience in national development planning of climate vulnerable countries. The Bank acts as trustee, secretariat and one of the implementing agencies of the CIFs. The PPCR offers recipient countries a mix of grants and loans for climate adaptation projects. read article...

No fairy tale Singrauli, India, still suffering years after World Bank coal investments

Report|Ama Marston|18 November 2011|url

As debates continue at the World Bank about its lending for new coal-fired power plants, residents of the Indian district of Singrauli, the country's coal capital, still live with the lasting social and environmental impacts of decades of coal-related projects and ask why the Bank has never returned to fully address what has been left in the wake of its investments in the region. read article...

India's energy future: Consequences of India's coal rush and alternative energy scenarios

Minutes|Bretton Woods Project|26 September 2011|url

Notes of a panel discussion, Washington DC, 20 September 2011 read article...

India's energy future: What role for the Bank?

Minutes|Bretton Woods Project|26 September 2011|url

Notes of meeting, Washington DC, September 21, 2011 read article...

Outcry over World Bank role in Indian policy review

News|Bretton Woods Project|13 September 2011|update 77|url

A June public statement by more than 70 NGOs, social movements and universities from across India opposes the Indian government's decision to commission the Bank to review anti-poverty schemes in the country, including the Public Distribution System (PDS), a subsidised national food security scheme. read article...

World Bank admits failures in East Timor

News|Bretton Woods Project|14 June 2011|update 76|url

In April the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the Bank's arms-length evaluation body, released a critical report assessing Bank operations in East Timor from 2000 to 2010. read article...

IMF policy, but not practice? Regressive tax in Pakistan

News|Azhar Lashari and Rachel Sharpe|13 June 2011|update 76|url

The IMF is withholding part of a loan to Pakistan over its failure to raise consumption taxes or decrease spending, but IMF-led reforms fail to address the under-taxation of the country's wealthy elite. The IMF's official approach to tax policy advice, articulated in a March board paper, shows a new appreciation for the distributional effects of taxation, but policy has not translated into practice. read article...

Cambodians denounce World Bank-funded land grab

Comment|League of Boeung Kak Women Struggling for Housing Rights|5 April 2011|update 75|url

We are the residents of Boeung Kak in Sras Choc commune, Phnom Penh, Cambodia who submitted a complaint to the World Bank Inspection Panel in September 2009. Our land rights, including our right to register our land, were unfairly denied by the World Bank-financed land-titling project. read article...

Cambodia and the limits of World Bank accountability

News|David Pred and Natalie Bugalski|5 April 2011|update 75|url

The World Bank Inspection Panel released an investigation report in March, which found that the Bank breached its operational policies by failing to properly design and supervise the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP), contributing to "grave harm" to affected families. read article...

Singaporean becomes first Asian to lead IMFC

article|Bretton Woods Project|5 April 2011|update 75|url

In late March, Singaporean finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was selected as chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee. read article...

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