Leading development and environment NGOs, including Christian Aid and Friends of the Earth, have today…
Commentary
Rights
Commentary
Why have Bank-CSO dialogues on water faltered?
Since 2003, there have been two attempts at starting a World Bank-civil society dialogue on water supply issues. Both of these simpered to a halt.
Accountability
Commentary
Using human rights tribunal to force Bank compliance: Uruguayan paper mill
The recent filing of two international complaints against a planned Bank-financed world's-largest paper mill in Uruguay is a unique experiment in bringing World Bank projects under the scrutiny of international human rights tribunals.
Social services
Commentary
Both arsonist and fire-fighter: the World Bank on school fees
A former UN special rapporteur on the right to education questions the World Bank's claim to have relinquished its support for user fees in education.
Knowledge
Commentary
Bankspeak of the year 2005
The most incomprehensible use of the english language handed down from the Bretton Woods Institutions during 2005.
Rights
Commentary
The Bank and Fund: do civil society groups in the Arab region realise what’s going on?
Comment by the Arab NGO Network for Development on the need for civil society in the region to take a more active role in monitoring the work of the IFIs.
Rights
Commentary
The World Bank, the apartheid wall and the ghettoisation of Palestine
Comment by Jamal Juma, campaign coordinator of the Palestinian anti-apartheid wall campaign: StoptheWall.
IFI governance
Commentary
Giant taming: 10 years of the Bretton Woods Project
Director, European Network on Debt and Development; Coordinator, Bretton Woods Project, 1995-2004
Rights
Commentary
World Bank and civil society engagement: a new direction?
A civil society perspective on the World Bank global civil society forum and the future of civil society and World Bank engagement, by Moreblessings Chidaushe, Afrodad
Rights
Commentary
People’s assembly demands justice from World Bank
Villagers of Badin district in southeastern Pakistan are demanding compensation from the World Bank for a drainage infrastructure project that has wrought environmental devastation and led to the loss of lives.
Trade
News
Bankspeak of the year 2004
2004 was a bumper year for new acronyms from the masters of the art form. But three new outstanding additions deserve special mention.
Social services
Commentary
The role of World Bank and IMF post-tsunami in Indonesia
The Paris Club communiqu
