Civil society commentary on the 'IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction'
Conditionality impacts
Rights
News
Trade and PRSP study
UK-based Christian Aid has commissioned the Overseas Development Institute to analyse the trade content of PRSPs.
Accountability
News
IFIs withhold support from Equatorial Guinea
The IMF and the WB will withhold assistance from Equatorial Guinea until President Obiang accounts for the use of oil revenues.
Conditionality
News
Ghana faces IMF arm-twisting
After the IMF intensified retaliatory measures on Ghana for failing to comply with its requirements, the country now appears eager to please the Washington institution, probably at a high social cost.
Rights
News
Bank in the middle of Cambodia, PNG forestry battles
Civil society groups in Cambodia and Papua New Guinea call on the Bank to exert its influence to curb violations of forestry codes.
Accountability
News
UK government reply to Baku-Ceyhan memo
Letter from Rt Hon Baroness Symons, UK Minister of State International Trade and Investment in response to NGO memorandum on the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
Conditionality
News
Baku Ceyhan: IFC delay, IMF pressure
The International Finance Corporation has indicated that its decision on whether to support the controversial Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline will be taken in the third quarter of this year, not in April as had been expected.
Rights
News
Cambodian catch-22
The World Bank is considering withholding funds from Cambodia in response to government moves against Global Witness, an independent monitor of the forestry sector.
Land
News
Turkey to test Fund independence
A power struggle is emerging over Turkey’s compliance with a host of proposed economic reforms included in a $16 billion IMF loan package.
Conditionality
Analysis
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
