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WB/IMF at European Social Forum

24 November 2003

The second edition of the ESF took place from the 12th to the 15th of November and gathered around 60000 participants. Specific activities on IFIs included a workshop on the Asian Development Bank and one on the role of Europe at the Bank and the IMF to counter US dominance. Their role was also discussed in a seminar on the right to health and various events on debt. Before the ESF the Bridge Initiative on Globalization organised a dialogue between Susan George, José Bové, Njoki Njoroge Njehu, and Mats Karlsson from the World Bank among others.