Notes of the seminar of annual meetings 2010
Macroeconomic policy
Conditionality
News
Basel III: IMF says tiger, critics say mouse
In mid September, the Basel committee on banking supervision released its "Basel III" rules.
Social services
News
IFIs sceptical of rating agencies
Doubt about private credit rating agencies' assessments have grown since 2008 and are being echoed by World Bank president Zoellick.
Finance
News
IMF at MDG summit: Poor countries should spend less, not more
While the IMF has focussed on its mandate review and governance reform, the institution’s policy towards low-income countries has taken a backseat. Civil society groups are worried that the IMF has returned to promoting fiscal austerity and constraining the investment needed to reach goals on poverty.
Finance
News
IFIs on trade and investment: Liberalisation bias returns
The World Bank’s latest report on foreign investment and its new trade strategy are part of a worrisome trend that involves the Bank’s growing use of tools other than conditionality, to restrict the space for countries to pursue alternative, country-tailored development strategies.
Finance
News
Failing to fix the foundations
As the IMF mandate reform concludes, significant changes prove elusive.
Conditionality
News
Jamaica: IMF halts school construction
Newspaper Jamaica Gleaner reported in early September that the country’s IMF programme has slowed the building of new schools.
Finance
Analysis
Adjusting foreign investment
This briefing explores the impact of capital account policy on international development. The liberalisation of capital accounts in developing countries has been promoted by international economic and financial institutions. However, with evidence showing the damaging economic, social and human consequences of unrestricted capital movement, tools to manage capital flows are increasingly being embraced by policy makers and academics.
Finance
Analysis
Rethinking the IMF's capital account mandate
While the intellectual thinking within some parts of the international financial institutions has recognised the usefulness of capital controls, there is yet to be formal acceptance of them within the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While the IMF's Articles of Agreement already contain important provisions about the rights of countries to use capital controls, consensus has not been achieved among the Fund's largest members on capital account management, despite its importance for both large
Finance
News
Speakers: The Private sector turn: private equity, financial intermediaries and what they mean for d
The list of speakers and short bios for the "Private sector turn: private equity, financial intermediaries and what thye mean for development" conference in London, 22 November 2010
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