The reality behind the Comprehensive Development Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (2000).
Analysis
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
A Crisis Of Identity? Conflicting Roles For The IMF
Two forces for change have converged on the IMF in recent years. The first is in relation to the financial crisis that swept across the globe in 1997 and 1998. The second has arisen from the pressure for debt cancellation to be linked to poverty reduction objectives and the acceptance that structural adjustment policies have failed to achieve lower levels of poverty.
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
Comments on the paper “Making The IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (EVO) Operational&
The Bretton Woods Project welcomes the establishment of an EVO.
Private Sector
Analysis
Assessing the IFC: for private gain or poverty reduction?
Bretton Woods Project contribution to compilation of analysis and case studies by a range of NGOs. (September 2000).
Conditionality
Analysis
What Role for the Multilateral Institutions, Donors, and NGOs in the New Framework for Poverty Eradi
This paper considers how the relationships and roles of intenational and national non-governmental organisations, donors and the multilateral institutions are likely to change as a result of new initiatives to put poverty reduction and country ownership at the centre of the development process (2000).
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
Beyond Meltzer
This briefing is a response to the “Meltzer Report” produced by the US congressional Committee led by Allan Meltzer on the roles of the IMF and World Bank. It examines the Committee’s recommendations and outlines why they are inappropriate and how they would actually increase the power of the IMF, whilst turning it into an institution that would serve the needs of private sector investors rather than assisting governments (2000).
Private Sector
Analysis
The IFC’s Beyond 2000 Strategy Paper: Missing the Point
Short note outlining concerns about the International Finance Corporation’s attempt to redefine its strategy. The new strategy ducks the key issue of how the IFC can use its leverage to improve companies’ social and environmental peformance. (February 1998)
Conditionality
Analysis
The ABC of the PRSP
An introduction to the new Bank and Fund Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
Blind Leading The Blind: Capital Account Liberalisation And The Role Of The IMF
In the light of the financial crisis in South East Asia and the traumur this brought to many people’s lives in the region it was anticipated that the executive directors of the international monetary fund would discuss a proposal to extend the IMF’s articles of agreement so that it can pursue capital account liberalisation in member countries.
Finance
Analysis
Preface: “Drowning By Numbers”
This paper considers whether private sector flows is an effective alternative to development assistance. It examines the implications of increased private sector inflows in terms of the potential to create unsustainable debt burdens and to tie the hands of policy makers to a limited set of policies critical for foreign investors but potentially detrimental to the domestic economy.
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
Policing the Policemen - the case for an independent evaluation mechanism for the IMF
Briefing outlining the case for an independent evaluation unit for the IMF and setting out the outlines the principles on which it should function (1998).
Finance
Analysis
Drowning By Numbers - Executive Summary
This paper considers whether private sector flows is an effective alternative to development assistance. It examines the implications of increased private sector inflows in terms of the potential to create unsustainable debt burdens and to tie the hands of policy makers to a limited set of policies critical for foreign investors but potentially detrimental to the domestic economy.
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