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Macro policy and poverty reduction reviewed
More research is necessary on the linkages between macroeconomic policy and impacts on the poor, concludes a new paper from the IMF.
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World Bank lending to poorest countries examined
As governments are again being asked to contribute to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) facility, NGOs and others are raising questions about the role and effectiveness of the Bank’s lending through IDA to the poorest countries.
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Analysing poverty impacts
At their Spring Meetings the IMF and World Bank outlined plans to carry out social impact analyses when designing macroeconomic and structural reforms.
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Bank ponders poverty report implementation
A recent Bank document sets out the plan for implementing the conclusions of the Poverty World Development Report (WDR).
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Poverty process acronyms
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Why officials and NGOs disagree on poverty analysis
Ravi Kanbur, who resigned as lead author of the World Bank’s Poverty World Development Report last May, has produced a paper on the disagreements which surround debates on poverty.
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Trade and poverty dispute
At a Poverty and the International Economy conference in Stockholm in late October a draft Trade, Growth and Poverty paper by senior World Bank researcher David Dollar was strongly criticized by Dani Rodrik of Harvard University.
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New directions for IMF?
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Report on transition safety nets
Forthcoming research by Save the Children Fund examines the record of “safety net” social programmes in formerly socialist countries.
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16 October 2024
The Bretton Woods Observer: Autumn 2024
16 October 2024
The lost call for international financial architecture reform in the G20
At the 80th anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, global civil society must maintain pressure on the Brazilian and South African G20 presidencies to ensure the forth Financing for Development Conference in 2025 results in urgently required international financial architecture reform.
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Sustainable development requires sustainable finance: why local currency financing is part of the solution
Multilateral development banks can reduce their dependence on hard currency lending and make local currency financing a central element of their developmental mandate.