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Health
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Featured briefings
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World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2023
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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.