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Spring/Annual meetings
IFI governance
Background
Mega-project mania?
Sponsors: Heinrich Boell Foundation, Bretton Woods Project, Latindadd, Pacific Environment, International Rivers, European Network on…
IFI governance
Analysis
World Bank strategy: untested innovation or more of the same?
The new World Bank Group strategy moves into the implementation stage with changes to country planning and internal structure, but critics say that little will change.
IFI governance
Background
Recommended resources on the World Bank and IMF 2013
The best papers, books and electronic resources on the World Bank and IMF from 2013.
IFI governance
Analysis
World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2013
Bretton Woods Project coverage of the 2013 annual meetings, including links to analysis and decoding of the communiqués as well as notes of some of the civil society and official meetings, as they become available.
Rights
Background
Review and update of the World Bank’s safeguard policies
Minutes from a side event with the World Bank safeguards team presenting an update on the review process during the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2013.
IFI governance
Background
Meeting president Kim’s pledge of “no dilution” for safeguards
Minutes of a civil society meeting on upward harmonisation of World Bank safeguards during the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2013.
IFI governance
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Continuing conversations with CAO
Minutes from a CAO sponsored event during the 2013 World Bank/IMF annual meetings.
IFI governance
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World Bank Group strategy and reform process
Minutes from a World Bank sponsored event on the new World Bank Group strategy during the 2013 WB/IMF annual meetings.
IFI governance
Background
Why the Bank and Fund provide too little debt relief too late – and what can be done about it
Expert panelists discuss the need for comprehensive and automatic debt restructuring mechanisms, at the Annual Meetings 2013 civil society forum
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