In mid January, the IMF took the unusual step of asking a group of donors to release budget support grants to Malawi, which they have been withholding until a new IMF programme is approved.
Parliamentary scrutiny
Environment
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CSO Townhall meeting
Notes from the CSO townhall meeting with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Robert Zoellick
IFI governance
Background
Videoconference between UK civil society and Alex Gibbs, UK IMF Executive Director
Minutes of a meeting between UK civil society, UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs, and UK Treasury staff
Conditionality
Background
Policy Support Instrument (PSI) - seminar
Notes of discussion at World Bank Civil Society Forum, 23 April 2009
IFI governance
Background
Meeting between UK civil society and Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Develop
Minutes of a meeting between Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, and UK NGOs, 21 April 2009
IFI governance
Background
Meeting between UK NGOs and Susanna Moorehead, UK World Bank Executive Director
Minutes of a meeting between UK civil society and UK World Bank Executive Director Susanna Moorehead
IFI governance
Background
Meeting between UK civil society and Alex Gibbs, UK IMF Executive Director
Minutes of a meeting between UK civil society, UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs, and UK Treasury staff
Conditionality
Background
Combating tax flight: ending evasion and reducing avoidance
Norway, Germany, IMF, WOrld Bank and experts discuss tackling tax evasion and capital flight.
IFI governance
News
Much needed increase in UK WB oversight
Susanna Moorehead, former DFID head in India, has been appointed UK executive director (ED) to the World Bank; Alex Gibbs will remain ED to the Fund (formerly the ED covered both the Bank and Fund).
IFI governance
News
Lots of rhetoric, few specifics: DFID defends its policy on the World Bank
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has sheepishly defended itself in its government response to the International Development Committee's (IDC) report DFID and the World Bank.
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