Health

Environment

Background

IMF and World Bank emergency response

The role of the IMF and World Bank in responding to emergencies and coordinating with relief efforts.

26 January 2005 | Inside the institutions

Accountability

Background

Draft Notes of WB-CSO dialogue on urban water and sanitation services, 18-19 Nov 2004

DRAFT action points and notes identified by participants to the WB-CSO dialogue held at WaterAid in London on 18-19 November.

1 December 2004 | Minutes

Social services

News

Fund irate over NGO claims that it blocks progress on AIDS

A report released by NGOs ActionAid, Global AIDS Alliance, Student Global AIDs Campaign and RESULTS Educational Fund charges that IMF fiscal targets limit spending on HIV/AIDS programmes.

22 November 2004

Environment

Background

Meeting with UK Executive Director to the WB and IMF, Tom Scholar

Meeting with UK Executive Director to the WB and IMF, Tom Scholar, Annual Meetings 2004, 14 September

8 October 2004 | Minutes

Social services

Commentary

Contradictions in the World Banks India Country Assistance Strategy

In August, representatives of social movements, national alliances and civil society organisations met in New Delhi and issued a statement explicitly rejecting the Bank's strategy for India.

21 September 2004 | Guest comment

Knowledge

News

Challenges to World Bank report on MDG progress

The World Bank has produced a long new report on how countries and international institutions are performing in relation to the Millennium Development Goals. But the Bank faces severe conflicts of interest in producing such a report.

5 April 2004

Social services

News

Unions, NGOs react to report on services

Union and NGO commentators believe the World Development Report on services contains an underlying bias towards private provision rather than public reform.

17 November 2003

Accountability

News

Chadians "mourn" while World Bank and oil companies celebrate pipeline

The coalition of Human Rights Associations in Chad has called for a national day of mourning on October 10, the date of the official inauguration of the Chad Cameroon Oil Pipeline.

8 October 2003

Social services

News

Bank nutrition projects ‘wasting resources’, report finds

Save the Children UK has recently released a report called “Thin on the Ground” claiming that the World Bank projects aimed at cutting children malnutrition in Bangladesh, Uganda and Ethiopia had failed to have any impact.

21 July 2003

Rights

News

Toxic waste dump or "world-class site"?

A new film points at contradictions in one of the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund projects in Durban, South Africa.

26 May 2003