The extent to which efforts to review conditionality represent a desire for better implementation rather than a fundamental re-examination of the impact of policy conditions remains unclear.
Poverty analysis
Conditionality
News
Parliaments: the missing link in democratising national policy making
Across sub-saharan Africa, good governance efforts depend on the strengthening of parliamentary democracy. In sharp contrast country relations with IFIs reveal weak parliamentary engagement.
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.
Knowledge
News
PRSPs: a continuation of structural adjustment
Debate remains over the formulation and content of PRSPs. Many analysts suggest that they continue the trajectory of structural adjustment policies.
Knowledge
News
IMF and poverty: strange bed fellows
The IMF's capacity and legitimacy to address poverty have been debated by many analysts within…
Knowledge
Analysis
Leading a horse to water: Is there a role for the IMF in poverty reduction?
Many observers were sceptical when a few years ago the IMF embarked on a mission to respond to the "cries of the poor", in the words of its then head Michel Camdessus
IFI governance
News
UK MPs question WB governance
On 6 November the International Development Committee of the House of Commons held an evidence session on World Bank/IMF issues
Conditionality
News
Official report confirms PRSP criticisms
A report produced by the Bank and Fund for their annual meetings reflects on the continuing problems with implementing the lofty goals of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
Knowledge
News
Making Poverty and Social Impact Analysis happen
An international meeting has set down plans for development agencies to take forward work on assessing the likely impact of World Bank/IMF-backed reforms.
Conditionality
News
Bolivian PRGF a “blind alley”
A new report by Bolivian NGO CEDLA shows that despite a new emphasis on civil society participation and poverty alleviation, the core policies attached to IMF loans have not changed.
