Rights

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Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions And Global Social Movements

The first full-length study of relations between social movements and the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has just been published.

Environment

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Imf Saps Hurt The Environment

A new report by Friends of the Earth-US, The IMF: Selling the Environment Short, highlights how the IMF’s growth-led development model and its approach to stabilisation are unsustainable and fail to consider the implications of ecological limits.

IFI governance

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Summmers Calls For Transparent Selection

US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has suggested that the Fund and Bank should set up outside advisory committees which would choose new heads for the institutions from a panel of candidates.

Conditionality

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Imf Suspends Lending To Moldova

The IMF has suspended lending to Moldova because the parliament has refused to allow the state-run wine and tobacco industries to be privatized.

Gender

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Police break up anti-IMF protests in Zambia

In April protesters outside a Lusaka hotel where IMF and Zambian officials were meeting were dispersed by armed riot police in Zambia.

IFI governance

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Stiglitz “Appalled” At IMF Policy

Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank chief economist, took the opportunity of the extensive media interest in the planned protests against the Bank and IMF at their Spring Meetings to launch an attack on IMF policy advice and practices.

Conditionality

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Sri Lankan appeal on aid transparency

Sri Lankan NGOs wrote to their President in May urging him to open up the annual Aid Group meeting at the end of May.

Private Sector

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IMF Board Blocks PSI Publication

The new buzz word in the global architecture debate is PSI - Private Sector Involvement.

Conditionality

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IMF demands Cote d’Ivoire austerity

The IMF has told the transition government in Cote d’Ivoire that it should cut government spending after finding that spending was more than double the level agreed by the former president, who was overthrown in December 1999.

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).

Conditionality

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IMF Reviews Crisis Conditionality

An IMF team has started a review of the conditions it applied to bail out South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Brazil.

Conditionality

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New briefing papers

A new short briefing from the Bretton Woods Project, The A, B,C of the PRSP, drawing on discussions with IMF and Bank staff reveals the reality behind the rhetoric of the new IMF and World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.