Debt

Conditionality

Background

Combating tax flight: ending evasion and reducing avoidance

Norway, Germany, IMF, WOrld Bank and experts discuss tackling tax evasion and capital flight.

11 October 2008 | Minutes

Rights

News

World Bank, NGOs clash at roundtable on odious debt

A recent roundtable meeting shows that some progress has been made in official understanding of odious debt, but that the World Bank is remaining very cautious on the topic.

26 September 2008

Conditionality

News

NGOs urge Congressional intervention on IMF gold sales

A coalition of over 70 US NGOs, including large labour unions, has written to Congress to demand that planned IMF gold sales pay for debt relief as well administrative expenses.

1 April 2008

Accountability

News

Calls for Bank to uphold human rights

As the UN human rights council holds its seventh session in Geneva in March, a variety of recent reports calling for greater human rights accountability of the World Bank have been published.

1 April 2008

Finance

News

The IMF in Argentina: the search for relevance

Since Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner assumed the presidency in December the Fund has been involved with the renegotiation of Argentinean debt with the Paris Club and a controversy over official statistics.

1 April 2008

Finance

News

IFIs foot dragging on key debt issues

The IFIs are struggling to catch up to global debates on odious debts and responsible financing; have failed to take action on vulture funds; and have been dragging their feet on debt relief programmes for Haiti and Liberia.

1 April 2008

Accountability

News

IMF rebukes Tajiks over false information

Tajikistan has gotten itself in hot water with the IMF over poor reporting of information while the country was borrowing money from the Fund.

1 April 2008

IFI governance

Background

The IFIs and Islamic finance

The World Bank Group and the IMF have become more involved in assistance to and oversight of Islamic financial institutions.

1 February 2008 | Inside the institutions

Finance

News

Peru to bow out, Turkey to renew?

Peru has indicated that it does not plan to renew its stand-by arrangement with the IMF when it expires next year. Turkey, the Fund’s largest borrower, is still debating is next move when its programme expires in May.

1 February 2008

Accountability

News

UK report on its activities at the World Bank

In late November, the UK released its third report on its relationship with the World Bank, disappointing in the coverage and depth of its analysis.

14 December 2007