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Analysis

The power of World Bank knowledge

By Michael Goldman * For the enormous power and global reach the World Bank has…

24 May 2000 | Briefings

Environment

Analysis

World Bank and IMF: Dilemmas and Opportunities

Are the World Bank and IMF now taking environmental and social issues seriously?

25 June 1999 | Briefings

Environment

Analysis

Questioning the World Bank/IMF Growth Model

Questioning the Growth Model was a meeting organised jointly by the Bretton Woods Project and…

25 June 1999 | Briefings

Conditionality

Analysis

The “Perestroika Of Aid”? New Perspectives On Conditionality

This report considers the factors which have led to a proliferation of conditionality and the growing acceptance that it is not an effective tool for persuading governments to make reforms. It proposes that an alternative is to encourage “ownership” and to base lending agreements on “poverty focused” programmes developed at the national level (1999).

15 March 1999 | Briefings

Finance

Analysis

Assessing Assessing Aid

A discussion and critique of the main points in a prominent World Bank report on aid policy and conditionality - “Assessing Aid, What Works, What Doesn’t and Why”. The Bank’s report is very frank about the many failures of aid financing, but its proposals of targeting finance to good performing countries are controversial (1999).

15 January 1999 | Briefings
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What needs to happen for the IFC to prioritize the Performance Standards?

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Data doesn’t support IFC/MIGA’S remedy proposal

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No voice for the vulnerable: Climate change and the need for quota reform at the IMF

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4 October 2022

Meeting the moment: The IMF, debt-for-climate swaps and development

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Anti IMF loan protest in downtown, Cairo, 2012. Credit: Gigi Ibrahim / Flickr
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This briefing explains how the IMF and World Bank have driven the financialisation of MENA states, and the pervasive negative effects this has had on the region’s societies and economies.

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The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2023

3 July 2023

Civil Society calls for rethink of World Bank’s ‘evolution roadmap’ as part of wider reforms to highly unequal global financial architecture

Joint civil society briefing paper highlights concerns with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, and provides a series of recommendations for a Roadmap that prioritises people, participation and the planet over profit and economic growth.

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