Washington, DC, 26 April, 2001 - Italy and UK are taking the lead among G7 partners to set up a global trust fund of $1 billion to provide cheaper drugs for poor countries.
Analysis
Finance
Analysis
Go with the Flows? Capital Account Liberalisation and Poverty
April 2001 report from the Bretton Woods Project and Oxfam. Examines the links between capital account liberalisation (CAL) and poverty reduction, including how CAL affects government spending, the delivery of social services, access to credit for small businesses and households, and general opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.
IFI governance
Analysis
Success or failure? Wolfensohn’s reforms at the World Bank
The World Bank is again trumpeting the changes it has made during Wolfensohn’s Presidency. But recent Bank documents reveal that many problems remain. These include a failure to institute a system for monitoring staff contributions to results in alleviating poverty, taking on too many global issues, and failing to balance global goals and national programmes. In a recent survey only 33% of developing country government officials said they thought the Bank was “effective” in hel
Conditionality
Analysis
Carrots and Sticks: a quick fix for IMF conditionality?
A short questions and answers briefing on the IMF’s approach to conditionality
Social services
Analysis
The World Bank’s global public goods agenda: good for whom?
Prepared for the World Bank-IMF Spring meetings 2001, a short analysis of the World Bank’s understanding of the global public goods and which areas it plans to concentrate on.
Conditionality
Analysis
Comments on the IMF staff’s review of conditionality
Bretton Woods Project comments on the IMF’s conditionality review
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
Overstretched and Underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions
Argues that the Bank has become involved in too many issue areas and initiatives. There are significant tensions in trying to be a Bank, a social development agency, a Knowledge Bank and a Global Issues Bank all at the same time. Includes comments from Bank staff, parliamentarians and NGOs on how to resolve this.
IFI governance
Analysis
IMF Governance Update
Information on processes and opportunities for influencing the IMF's governance structures.
Knowledge
Analysis
Overstretched and Underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions
Argues that the Bank has become involved in too many issue areas and initiatives. There are significant tensions in trying to be a Bank, a social development agency, a Knowledge Bank and a Global Issues Bank all at the same time. Includes comments from Bank staff, parliamentarians and NGOs on how to resolve this (February 2001).
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
IMF Governance Update
Information on processes and opportunities for influencing the IMF’s governance structures.
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
Structural Adjustment for the IMF
Examines representation and power issues relating to the IMF’s Board, staff and management. Identifies and discusses reform proposals.
Conditionality
Analysis
New Development Tools or Empty Acronyms?
The reality behind the Comprehensive Development Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (2000).
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