Notes of a meeting on Myanmar's transition to full country partnership at the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2014
Conflict
IFI governance
Background
Matching money and expertise: ensuring conflict sensitivity is top of the agenda for the bank's fragile state financing
Notes of a meeting on matching money and expertise at the World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2014
Rights
Analysis
Conflict-affected states, IFC’s final frontier
The IFC is set to expand operations in fragile and conflict-affected states such as Burma, despite indications that systemic problems identified in Honduras persist.
Infrastructure
Commentary
Disempowered development
World Bank support for a Nepal power line has been criticised for violating indigenous peoples’ rights and the use of armed forces, yet an Inspection Panel investigation has been delayed.
Rights
Background
Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) and dispute resolution process
Meg Taylor, CAO We have recently reviewed our operational guidelines and wanted to introduce more…
Conditionality
News
IMF embroiled in Ukraine crisis
Ukraine’s interim government concluded negotiations in late March for an IMF loan, likely to carry wide-ranging conditionality.
Rights
Commentary
CSO response to the CAO investigation into IFC investment in Corporación Dinant, Honduras
An international statement, signed by 70 organisations, in response to the publication in mid January of a CAO audit and the IFC response and action plan related to IFC investment in Corporación Dinant, Honduras.
Rights
Analysis
A fragile solution: World Bank’s new approach to fragile and conflict affected states
World Bank launches a new approach to fragile states, accompanied by resources, including IFC investment but it remains unclear what role it will play in implementing the reforms.
Finance
Analysis
The IFIs in 2013: year in review
The Bretton Woods Project review of the most important developments at the World Bank and IMF in 2013.
Finance
Analysis
First ever real-terms drop in IDA agreed
As the negotiations on the 17th replenishment of the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) pass the half way mark, a real-terms drop in IDA and stingier terms for borrowers have been agreed. The discussion has focussed largely on the private sector and fragile states.
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Financialisation and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
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The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2023
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Civil Society calls for rethink of World Bank’s ‘evolution roadmap’ as part of wider reforms to highly unequal global financial architecture
Joint civil society briefing paper highlights concerns with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, and provides a series of recommendations for a Roadmap that prioritises people, participation and the planet over profit and economic growth.