Small shifts in voting power at the World Bank are expected to be formally agreed at April's spring meetings, leaving high-income countries holding almost 60 per cent of the vote, with further reform put off until 2015. Meanwhile the Bank is expected to receive a smaller capital increase than it sought, which could push lending back to pre-crisis levels.
IDA
Finance
News
IDA: World Bank fundraising drive begins
As officials opened discussions on donor contributions to the sixteenth replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA, the World Bank arm for low-income countries), civil society groups urged major reforms to the Bank's structure and approach.
Social services
News
IEG: World Bank neglects most water-deprived countries
A recent report by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) finds the Bank's water lending to be overlooking the most water-stressed countries.
Finance
News
IMF changing its mantra?
After four decades of promoting policies of targeting very low inflation rates and unfettered capital flows, the global financial crisis has prompted new debate over IMF ideology.
Finance
Analysis
Funding the World Bank - The sixteenth IDA replenishment: Major reform must be the price of UK suppo
Joint paper by ten UK development NGOs calling for the government to use IDA's 16th replenishment to push the World Bank to make significant reforms, without which the UK should not increase its cash allocation and instead consider alternative channels for aid.
Accountability
News
World Bank restores aid to post-coup Honduras
The World Bank announced in early February that it would restore aid to Honduras, following the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo as president.
Finance
Background
IDA replenishment
This year, donor countries will decide on their financial contributions to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) for 2011-2014.
Finance
News
IEG calls for overhaul of World Bank's lending criteria
The withholding of a critical evaluation of the World Bank’s method of allocating lending to low-income countries raises suspicions that the Bank is seeking to avoid public criticism in advance of the upcoming negotiations for replenishment of the Bank’s cheap loan arm.
Environment
News
Debt aftershocks to shake Haiti's recovery?
An IMF loan to Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake in early January has been criticised for exacerbating the country's debt burden and endangering recovery.
Environment
Commentary
Unjustifiable Bank domination over climate funds in Bangladesh
World Bank's record in Bangladesh shows there is no place for it in a just response to climate change, but it is set to dominate the new fund for adaptation in Bangladesh. Civil society critics speak out.
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2009
Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly.
Finance
News
IDA replenishment starts soon
Although there has not been a large take up of the fast-tracking facility available to IDA countries, it could affect the timetable for IDA replenishment, if it causes IDA funds to run low before the end of the legal period of IDA 15 in 2011.
