A new pamphlet from UNICEF details the social legacy of Indonesia’s financial crisis.
Debt
Finance
News
PRSP case studies report
A new report summarises some of the continued challenges for participatory poverty reduction processes.
Finance
News
Health policy attacked
The People’s Health Conference 2000 criticized the World Bank’s health policies for being “anti-Third World”.
Finance
News
Dakar 2000: from resistance to alternatives
In December a meeting of campaigners in Dakar, Senegal assessed Africa’s debt crisis and the human effects of structural adjustment.
Finance
News
Loans for El Salvador emergency
The World Bank was accused of “behaving like vultures, like loan sharks” by US NGO 50 Years is Enough Campaign after it offered to help finance emergency relief efforts in El Salvador in the wake of January’s earthquake.
Rights
News
New “Net the debt” site
OneWorld has launched DebtChannel.org, a global portal site on international debt.
Conditionality
News
Argentine bail-out causes more hardship
After weeks of jockeying by the Argentinian government, the IMF and the US Treasury Department finally agreed to provide $18 billion to bailout Argentina’s troubled economy in November.
Finance
News
Turkey in crisis
Turkey is the latest country to be overcome by financial crisis.
Conditionality
News
New directions for IMF?
“I have a heart” pleaded Horst K
Finance
News
Brazilians say “no” to debt and the IMF
In Brazil a national plebiscite on External Debt, held in September, rejected the government’s agreement with the IMF and its commitment to full debt repayment at whatever cost.
Featured briefings
27 September 2023
Financialisation and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
This briefing explains how the IMF and World Bank have driven the financialisation of MENA states, and the pervasive negative effects this has had on the region’s societies and economies.
19 July 2023
The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2023
3 July 2023
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.