Update from the WB IMF annual meetings in Washington

‘Will they, won’t they’ speculation on the G8 debt deal was the key theme of the week in Washington. In the end, it looks as if they will, but debt campaigners have some lingering concerns about language which might imply increased conditionality. Bretton Woods Project staff in Washington have provided brief summaries of many of the meetings that went on around the annual meetings. Click on the meeting titles below for more information. This page will be regularly updated.

Tuesday, 20 September

• Press briefing on WDR 2006, Equity and Development
• Discussion of WDR 2007: Development and the next generation

Wednesday, 21 September

• European CSO meeting with European executive directors to the World Bank
• CSO discussion with IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
• Press briefing on IMF World Economic Outlook
• Press briefing on IFC annual report 2005
• Report on multi-stakeholder consultations on ‘systemic issues’: issues of global finance and governance of the IFIs
• Accountability within the PRS approach

Thursday, 22 September

• Global development: Which way forward? Aid, growth and economic policy in developing countries
• World Bank session on climate change
• Launch of Eurodad Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) advocacy report
• Aid for trade and the Doha development agenda
• Reform agenda in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq
• IMF role in low-income countries
• CSO meeting with outgoing IFC head
• Town hall meeting with World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz

Friday, 23 September

• G7 communiqué
• Letter from G8 finance ministers to World Bank president on G8 debt proposal
• Southern parliamentarians blocked from attending G24 meeting by IMF
• What future for the World Bank? hosted by the Center for Global Development
• Roundtable on aid effectiveness
• CSO World Bank Inspection Panel meeting
• Presentation of new World Bank social development strategy
• What future for World Bank conditionality?
• CSO-World Bank meeting on the infrastructure progress report

Saturday, 24 September

• IMFC meeting
• Anti-war march and mobilisation for global justice

Sunday, 25 September

• Development Committee meeting

Monday, 26 September

• Extractive industries review implementation meeting
• DRC: Post-conflict development and the World Bank

Tuesday, 27 September

• Alternative macroeconomic policies for fighting HIV/AIDS and achieving economic development