The Global Transparency Initiative will be holding a three-month consultation starting 28 September, on a draft charter of transparency principles which the international financial institutions should uphold.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Environment
News
Slow progress on World Bank’s oil, gas and mining commitments
Update on the World Bank Group’s progress on the management response to the Extractive Industries Review. Problems relating to the BTC pipeline on its inauguration. Summary of the book The risks we run, on political risk insurance and the mining industry.
Rights
News
IFIwatchnet in your region … and in video!
IFIwatchnet has established regional animators and will soon add multimedia resources.
Private Sector
Commentary
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
Around the world, when politics and money prevail, the environment is the last issue considered.…
Rights
News
Campaigners challenge legal basis of Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
Just after key project documents were released in June campaigners in Georgia and the UK filed legal challenges to the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline, raising awkward questions for the World Bank Group and other potential financiers.
Conditionality
News
World Bank and IMF forcing privatisation: new report
Privatisation imposed by the World Bank and the IMF can be harmful to the most…
IFI governance
News
The politics of multilateral institutions
A new book by two researchers at the University of Oslo describes the structure and decision-making processes of multilateral institutions.
IFI governance
News
US Roles In Bank Examined
A new book sets out current issues in multilateral development bank reform and the way that the US pushes its interests in the institutions.
