The IMF has gone back to promoting fiscal austerity and pressuring governments to implement spending cuts and structural reforms. Austerity also remains at the heart of the Fund's debt sustainability policies.
Energy
Infrastructure
Analysis
Clean energy targets for the World Bank
This paper questions what the World Bank counts as clean energy and whether it reports on its energy lending in an accountable way. The concerns it highlights demonstrate the need for a far more rigorous and transparent approach, subject to independent monitoring.
Infrastructure
Background
Meeting on the World Bank with DFID
Notes of a meeting between Rachel Turner of DFID and UK NGOs, April 2010
Accountability
Background
Evaluation as a critical tool for accountability
Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 23 April
Infrastructure
Background
Launch of Bank Information Center's (BIC's) model energy strategy
Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 24 April
Accountability
Background
A sustainable World Bank energy strategy: perspectives from various stakeholders
Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 23 April
Infrastructure
Background
Governance challenges in financing green and sustainable energy policies
Freidrich-Ebert-Stiftung event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 22 April
Infrastructure
Background
Roundtable on post-crisis economic recovery
World Bank event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 22 April
Infrastructure
Analysis
Fuelling contradictions: the World Bank's energy lending and climate change
The World Bank's energy and infrastructure lending is undermining its credibility as an institution committed to combating the impacts of climate change for the world's poor, and its attempts to play a central role in managing global climate funds.
Environment
Commentary
Eskom loan blackens the World Bank's name
The World Bank, Business Unity South Africa and the African National Congress got their way with a major loan for Eskom, the national power authority, despite broad based opposition from local people, the poor, community organisations, the churches, unions, and environmental and social justice NGOs locally and globally.
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