The IMF's capacity and legitimacy to address poverty have been debated by many analysts within…
Debt
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Brazil renews "unnecessary" IMF agreement despite opposition
Brazil and the IMF announced they would renew a financial arrangement at the end of the year, sparking new doubts about the methods and motives of Lula's government. The news came shortly after Rede Brasil, a network of Brazilian NGOs and social movements, urged the government not to sign.
Trade
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BWI reform discussed at UN dialogues
The Financing for Development (FfD) process held its first high-level follow-up to assess progress over three days in New York, 28 - 30 October.
Conditionality
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Bolivian PRGF a “blind alley”
A new report by Bolivian NGO CEDLA shows that despite a new emphasis on civil society participation and poverty alleviation, the core policies attached to IMF loans have not changed.
Rights
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Activist manifesto on global institutions
A new book challenges global institutions and anti-globalisation activists with proposals for stronger but radically…
Conditionality
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Debt relief money diverted in Nicaragua
A new report shows that debt relief in Nicaragua is only partly going to poverty reduction.
Environment
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“Parliamentary Front” on IFIs
Members of the Brazilian parliament have called on their colleagues to form a parliamentary front on IFIs and the national banking system.
Conditionality
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IMF paper on NEPAD
A new IMF working paper on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), calls the agreement "visionary".
Conditionality
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Circling the wagons: World Bank-IMF-WTO coherence
The heads of the World Bank and IMF spoke to the General Council - the highest-level decision-making body of the World Trade Organisation - on 13 May on the benefits of increasing coherence between their respective agencies. Civil society groups counter that the use of the word 'coherence' is a ruse designed to bring countries in line with a set of flawed economic policies.
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Comments on ‘IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction’
Civil society commentary on the 'IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction'
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Missing in action: accountability is noticeably absent from the World Bank Group’s new Corporate Scorecard
The Corporate Scorecard’s accountability gap is symptomatic of a broader failure on the part of the WBG to fully internalise, integrate and learn from the work of its accountability mechanisms.
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