A state's relationship with the IFIs and the type of assistance it receives is determined by its country classification. Some crucial types of classifications are: the World Bank's operational lending categories; the Bank's analytical categories used in the World Development Report; the IMF's operational and analytical categories, the IFC's frontier market category; the Bank's fragile state category; and the distinctions used by the Bank and IMF in deciding on and reporting success in governance
IBRD
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2011
Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2011. This page is being updated regularly.
Accountability
News
Tribunal increases protection for World Bank whistleblowers
In June the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, an internal justice body that oversees the treatment of employees, ordered the Bank to reinstate a former staff member, John Kim, who was fired in 2007 for telling a journalist about conflicts between former Bank president Paul Wolfowitz and the Bank's board of directors.
IFI governance
News
World Bank lending falls by 20 per cent
The Bank announced in June that its commitments for the fiscal year ending 30 June, had fallen to $57.4 billion, from an all time peak of $72 billion last year.
Infrastructure
News
World Bank busted over bus project in Lima
The Bank board approved in June a management response to a complaint from residents of the Barranco district in Lima, Peru, about the impacts of a bus service project that it supported.
Environment
Analysis
A faulty model?
This paper critically assesses the appropriateness of the Bank-housed Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) as a model for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). It takes proposals and recommendations by civil society groups and uses them as benchmarks to analyse the CIFs. It finds that in terms of institutional arrangements the CIFs have achieved some notable progress, however, in operations and performance there are serious concerns.
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2011
Analysis of governance reforms and other decisions made at the 2011 World Bank and IMF spring meetings
Accountability
News
World Bank safeguards and independent scrutiny at risk?
Civil society groups have challenged Bank plans to rush through a new lending instrument, Program-for-Results, that would mean safeguards or equivalent standards no longer apply to a major portion of Bank lending. Meanwhile, a secretive review could strip the Bank's accountability bodies of their independence and safeguards could be scaled back for projects deemed "low risk".
Infrastructure
Analysis
The role of the World Bank in carbon markets
This paper outlines the World Bank's involvement in the carbon market and reviews concerns about its impacts on greenhouse gas emission reductions and development.
Infrastructure
Background
Private sector investment in energy lending and climate finance
Meeting notes of 'Private sector investment in energy lending and climate finance'
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2010
Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly.
Accountability
News
Gender-blindness and conditionality cast shadow over record World Bank lending
New evidence of worsening gender performance and persistent conditionality has led critics to ask if the Bank is fit for purpose.
