Highlights from a meeting between Bank president Wolfensohn, Fund director Rato, South African finance minister Trevor Manuel, UK chancellor Gordon Brown, and NGOs.
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IMF role in low-income countries
Highlights of a Fund staff meeting with CSOs to discuss the role of the Fund in low-income countries.
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Debt cancellation? Or an exercise in book-keeping?
Talk of full multilateral debt cancellation has been in the air since the June G8 summit against the backdrop of the impending end of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative. The US Treasury Department is apparently pushing for full multilateral debt cancellation and could announce this at the G8 ministers meeting ahead of the Bank and Fund annual meetings.
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The Bank, the Fund, the debt threat
Researcher Noreena Hertz, in her latest book I.O.U: The debt threat and why we must…
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Conditionality: two steps forward, two steps back
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.
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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".
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Moving the goalposts: Zambia’s misery prolonged
Despite intensive efforts to implement the necessary conditions, Zambia has been told that it will have to wait even longer for debt relief.
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New IMF poverty assessment unit
The IMF has announced the creation of a unit to work on producing Poverty and Social Impact Analysis.
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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.
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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.