The World Bank's forum on conditionality was held at the World Bank Conference Centre in Paris in early July. The majority of participants were representatives of bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and the Bank.
Conditionality impacts
Conditionality
News
Bank review: ‘one-size fits all’ solutions persist
The World Bank's Operation Evaluation Department released its 2003 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness, finding that the Bank's efforts are hampered by "attempts to transplant policies and institutions without adequate analysis of the context".
Conditionality
News
New IMF poverty assessment unit
The IMF has announced the creation of a unit to work on producing Poverty and Social Impact Analysis.
Knowledge
News
Ties that bind: possible shifts on conditionality?
The extent to which efforts to review conditionality represent a desire for better implementation rather than a fundamental re-examination of the impact of policy conditions remains unclear.
Rights
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IFI campaigners win environment prizes
This year's Goldman Environmental Prize honoured two activists who have been tackling World Bank projects and policies.
Conditionality
Commentary
Lula and Kirchner want IMF to relax its grip
A new initiative to rewrite the rules of engagement with the IMF could mark the biggest change in creditor-debtor relations in a generation.
Knowledge
News
PRSPs: a continuation of structural adjustment
Debate remains over the formulation and content of PRSPs. Many analysts suggest that they continue the trajectory of structural adjustment policies.
Conditionality
Commentary
Life under the IMF’s magnifying glass:
The Fund takes to micro-management in Zambia to ensure compliance with belt tightening measures, threatening civil unrest.
Rights
News
World Bank Loans to Andhra Pradesh: Financing bloodshed and impunity?
Human rights activists in Andhra Pradesh have strongly objected to World Bank plans for a new economic reform loan to the state government.
Accountability
News
Legislators courted but oversight insufficient
The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB) will hold its annual conference February 15-16 in Paris. Oversight of relations between governments, the IMF and the Bank by legislators is still insufficient in the North and in the South.
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