At their 6 - 8 July summit in Gleneagles Scotland, G8 leaders tasked the World Bank and the IMF with much of the follow-up on their commitments on debt reduction, increased aid and fairer trade.
Debt
Environment
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The G8, the World Bank and climate change
Environmentalists expressed dismay at the G8’s failure to make progress on the issue of climate change. What will be the World Bank’s involvement in the follow-up programme?
Environment
Background
Highlights of meeting between Tom Scholar and UK NGOS
Highlights of meeting between Tom Scholar and UK NGOS
Accountability
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G8 cancellation of World Bank, IMF debt: "step forward"
Finance ministers of the world's richest countries agreed to write off $40 to $55 billion of debts owed to the World Bank, IMF and African Development Bank. Statements on aid effectiveness and trade in the final communiqu
Conditionality
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Fund legitimacy under question
A summary of IMF gold sale deadlock. A summary of the new Turkish loan agreement and Krueger's comments on a flexible labour market. Re-emergence of the idea of an Asian Monetary Fund
Finance
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Ecuador stands ground
Ecuador's new president has claimed he will not back down on oil revenues
Environment
Background
UK NGO meeting with executive director Tom Scholar: uncorrected highlights 4 April 2005
Minutes of Spring meeting with Tom Scholar and UK NGOs in London
Social services
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IMF in low-income countries
Chaired by Mark Plant, head of PDR The spring meetings were quiet on this issue…
Finance
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IDA XIV replenishment: substantial increase in new resources but commitments still inadequate
Summary of outcome of IDA X1V meeting in Washington, February 2005
Social services
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World Bank tsunami response
World Bank's response to the tsunami in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives
Featured briefings
6 April 2023
World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2023
5 April 2023
The IMF at the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The need for governance reform
As the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is time the IMF’s shareholders use the opportunities provided by the anniversary and growing calls for reforms to the international financial architecture to redesign the IMF’s governance structures and programmes to ensure they are consistent with the commitments outlined in 1948 and with international human rights law.
5 April 2023
The global financial architecture and the international debt crisis: An urgent call for reform
Influence of unreformed international financial institutions and creditor interests in debt solutions in low- and middle-income countries plagued by delay and ineffective when undertaken.