Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly.
Inspection Panel
Rights
News
Inspection Panel raps World Bank in Ghana
A complaint to the World Bank Inspection Panel by the NGO, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), on behalf of the Agyemankata community has resulted in a report confirming violations of Bank policies on forced evictions and environmental hazards related to a planned landfill near Accra, Ghana.
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2009
This page will be updated regularly with the latest news from the 2009 World Bank and IMF spring meetings
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2008
At this year's annual meetings, the focus will of course be on the financial crisis gripping the rich countries of the world. Questions remain as to whether important issues around the World Banks role in climate change and its even governance structure will get the attention they deserve.
Accountability
News
IFI inspection mechanisms slam Bank faults in Uganda and Nigeria
The Bujagali dam project in Uganda and the West Africa Gas Pipeline project in Nigeria have been roundly criticised by the World Bank's Inspection Panel.
Accountability
News
Inspection Panel conflicts
The Inspection Panel has closed applications for a new Panel member to replace Tongroj Onchan. An NGO letter had expressed concerns about the conflict of interest posed by the inclusion of Bank staff on the selection committee, and the failure to involve civil society in the process.
IFI governance
News
World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2008
At this year's spring meetings, the World Bank faced increasing opposition to its plans to tackle climate change, while the IMF was forced to admit that the lack of democracy in its governance is probably why it missed the boat on the credit crisis.
Infrastructure
Analysis
Facilitating whose power? WB and IMF policy influence in Nigeria's energy sector
Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the World Bank's energy portfolio still fails to reap the double dividend of renewable energy technologies that would tackle both energy poverty and climate change. Nigerian economic policies shaped by World Bank and IMF recommendations, policy agreements and conditionality have so far lead to a dysfunctional electricity privatisation process, a heavy and as yet unfulfilled reliance on reform of the gas sector, and the failure to make any widespread practical pr
Environment
News
World Bank powerless to end Chad abuses
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Environment
Background
Highlights of BWI-UK network meeting with Caroline Sergeant, 7 February 2008
Highlights of NGO meeting with alternative executive director to the World Bank, Caroline Sergeant
Rights
News
Panel investigates Ghana's landfill complaint
In October the board accepted the Inspection Panel's recommendation for a full investigation into a complaint filed by the NGO Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Environment
News
Bank violates own policies in Congo
The findings of an Inspection Panel investigation into the Bank's failure to comply with its own safeguard policies in its support for forest sector reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was discussed by the board in January
