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Knowledge

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Independent e-conference on Poverty WDR first draft

The Bretton Woods Project will run an electronic conference to discuss the first draft of the World Bank’s Poverty World Development Report.

15 September 1999

Conditionality

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Strikers in Colombia in protest at IMF and debt

In late August Colombian labour unions began an indefinite national strike in protest at the government’s political, social, and economic agenda and calling on the government to declare a moratorium on the payment of its internal and external debt.

15 September 1999

WB/IMF roles

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IMF mission creep

The IMF, which monitors all its members’ economies through its Article IV consultation process, is not content with monitoring the codes on fiscal policy, corporate governance and monetary policy.

15 September 1999

Rights

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China arrests project monitors

On 15 August the Chinese Government arrested three people for trying to investigate the World Bank Western Poverty Project.

15 September 1999

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Monitoring the monitors

The external evaluation reports on the IMF's surveillance and research activities have been discussed by…

15 September 1999

Conditionality

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Bank support for social sector in Brazil an illusion

Last year the World Bank lent billions of dollars to Brazil, claiming that they would support social safety-nets during the financial crisis.

15 September 1999

Social services

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Bank feels heat on waste incineration

A report launched in June condemns World Bank support for medical waste incineration.

15 September 1999

Conditionality

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PNG Government avoids conditionality

Relations between the Bank and the government of Papua New Guinea were strained in July by the government’s decision to issue bonds to raise money from the private sector.

15 September 1999

Accountability

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IMF and Bank failed to spot Indonesia corruption

The International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) has criticised the Bank and Fund for failing to properly supervise the use of loan funds which were intended to help refinance the shattered banking sector.

15 September 1999

Environment

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Coal mines threaten tiger corridors in India

Indian NGO INTACH has been studying the likely impact of the World Bank-supported expansion of coal mining in Bihar on wild tigers.

15 September 1999

Rights

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Annual meetings Prague 2000

NGO preparations are already underway for the World Bank’s 2000 annual meetings.

15 September 1999

Rights

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Call to halt aid after Timorese massacres

Massacres perpetrated and condoned by the Indonesian army have led to calls to halt World Bank and IMF aid programmes to Indonesia.

15 September 1999