Civil society commentary on the 'IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction'
Debt
Finance
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Bank hypocrisy over Nestlé claim
A Nestl
Rights
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IMF debt plan controversial
Hopes are fading at the IMF for its proposal of a mechanism to restructure poor countries debt as opposition mounts.
Accountability
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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.
Finance
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MIGA role in Ethiopian Nestlé claim unclear
Questions about what advice MIGA provided to the Ethiopian government in its role as mediator in a $6m suit filed against the country by the Swiss multinational.
Rights
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Debt arbitration mechanism weakened
Private creditors oppose the proposed “sovereign debt restructuring mechanism” (SDRM) and the Fund seems ready to further dilute a plan that NGOs already considered flawed.
Finance
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Fund deal with Argentina
After over a year of stalled negotiations, the G7 in mid-January strong-armed the IMF into signing an agreement that will roll over $6.6 billion of Argentina's debt.
Social services
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Short gives evidence on World Bank to UK parliamentarians
MPs on the International Development Select Committee questioned Clare Short on: debt, PRSPs, PSIA, Bank governance, social and environmental policies, privatisation of services, education and trade capacity building.
Finance
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Argentina default pressures Krueger
After a record-breaking eleven months of failed talks with the IMF Argentina has, for the first time, defaulted on a payment to the World Bank.
Finance
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Krueger sets out IMF latest on debt arbitration
IMF number two Anne Kreuger favours a so-called “institutional approach” for debt restructuring which involves establishing a Dispute Resolution Forum to bring all stakeholders together.
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.