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8 April 2006

Comments by southern civil society

  • Using human rights tribunals to force Bank compliance: Uruguayan paper mill, Jorge Daniel Taillant, CEDHA
  • The Bank, the Fund and civil society in the Arab region, Arab NGO Network for Development
  • The World Bank and the apartheid wall, Jamal Juma, StoptheWall
  • World Bank and civil society engagement, Moreblessings Chidaushe, AFRODAD
  • Peoples assembly demands justice from World Bank, Mustafa Talpur, ActionAid Pakistan
  • The role of the World Bank and IMF in post-tsunami Indonesia, Binny Buchori, Prakarsa

At issue in-depth briefings

  • The IMF and capital flight, David Spencer, Tax Justice Network
  • How much trust should we put in the funds? Jeff Powell, Bretton Woods Project
  • Secretive World Bank tribunal confronts calls to open up, Ezequiel Nino, ACIJ
  • Kept in the dark: The World Bank, the IMF and parliaments, Olivia McDonald, ChristianAid
  • The World Bank policy scorecard: The new conditionality, Jeff Powell, Bretton Woods Project

Inside the institutions

  • The World Bank and education
  • HIV/AIDS and the World Bank
  • Decision-making at the IMF
  • The executive boards of the World Bank and IMF, Tom Scholar, UK Executive Director
  • The World Bank board of executive directors
  • IMF and World Bank emergency response