During the Spring Meetings NGOs had a disappointing meeting with Joanne Salop, Vice President for Operations Policy and Strategy.
Safeguards
Conditionality
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New adjustment credit guidelines revealed
Impact assessments and participatory monitoring and evaluation processes will be key features of the World Bank’s new Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC) according to guidelines.
Environment
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New briefings on Bank policy revisions
Forest Peoples’ Programme has produced three new briefings on World Bank policy reformulation processes.
Rights
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Financial crises and global slowdown capture IMF-World Bank spring meetings agenda
The global economic slowdown and donor countries’ differing views on what to do about it, pushed issues related to the world’s poorest nations to the sidelines of public debate on this year’s spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank.
Rights
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World Bank to push for more adjustment lending
A draft World Bank report outlining experience with structural adjustment lending proposes that such lending should be increased.
Rights
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Indigenous policy dilution threat
The World Bank’s revised Indigenous Peoples Policy will be released in draft early in 2001 for further consultations.
Land
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Bank land reforms contested
A petition to the World Bank on market-based land reform has been prepared by Via Campesina (an international peasants movement) and FIAN (a human rights group).
Rights
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Labour representatives meet World Bank
In late October 60 labour organization representatives met World Bank and IMF staff to discuss trade union issues.
IFI governance
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Forest and adjustment policy reviews
The series of eight Regional Consultations on the World Bank’s forest policy have been completed.
Rights
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China project shakes Bank
The campaign by pro-Tibetan and other groups to press the World Bank to drop the China Western Poverty Project caused a major political battle at the institution during June.
Featured briefings
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.
16 October 2024
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.