KnowledgeExamines the World Bank's role as a self-proclaimed "knowledge bank". Questions IFI's knowledge biases as well as providing critical analysis of the bank's development effectiveness and its new Information and Communications Technologies initiatives, such as the Development Gateway. Includes: Technical assistance, development gateway, World Development Reports, media, global public goods, research, poverty measurement, 'results' agenda read more background... Items 1 to 10 of 304World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2012Analysis of the 2012 World Bank and IMF spring meetings and related events, including the selection of new World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. read article... World Bank views on poverty "econocentric"As the World Bank released its latest global poverty estimates, critics warn of the data's shortcomings and how it compromises the understanding of the issue. read article... Building alternatives BRICS by BRICSWith the future of the World Bank up for grabs in the presidency race and the IMF facing a resource crunch, many developing countries are pursuing alternatives to the Washington-based lenders, with Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa even mooting a joint BRICS Bank. read article... IMF and capital flows: all talk, no solutionAs the IMF and Bank of England predict that increasing volatility of global capital flows will motivate widespread use of capital controls, academics and civil society organisations are calling for coordinated global solutions. read article... Recommended resources on the World Bank and IMF 2011Recommendations from Bretton Woods Project staff on the best papers, books and electronic resources of 2011. read article... IFIs admit failure to put jobs at the centreWhile the International Labour Organization (ILO) warns of social unrest coming from record unemployment, the IMF and World Bank are being criticised for hindering workers rights and not putting jobs at the centre of recovery. read article... Analysis in conflict WDR criticisedThe World Bank's 2011 World Development Report (WDR) on Conflict, Security and Violence was challenged in a paper published in the Journal of International Development. read article... Inside the institutions: country classificationsA state's relationship with the IFIs and the type of assistance it receives is determined by its country classification. Some crucial types of classifications are: the World Bank's operational lending categories; the Bank's analytical categories used in the World Development Report; the IMF's operational and analytical categories, the IFC's frontier market category; the Bank's fragile state category; and the distinctions used by the Bank and IMF in deciding on and reporting success in governance reforms. read article... World Bank's gender WDR: too little, too late?The World Bank's flagship annual publication pushes gender equality up to the Bank's agenda, but critics express concern about its implementation and unwillingness to consider gender as a women's rights issue. read article... World Bank Poverty Findings ChallengedA new Basic Capabilities Index (BCI), published by civil society network Social Watch, is “closer to reality than the one-dollar-a-day line of the World Bank”, according to Social Watch director Roberto Bissio. read article... |
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