At the spring meetings in April the Bank released a paper on fiscal policy for growth, and announced the creation of an independent commission on growth. However, the composition of the commission suggests that its purpose is to shore up the widening cracks in the Washington consensus, rather than explore new thinking.
Spring/Annual meetings
Conditionality
News
Inflexibility on aid scale up haunts IMF fiscal conditions
The rigidity of Fund programmes is causing chafing at the collar in governments and civil society organisations in low-income countries, as the debate over the scaling up of aid rages.
IFI governance
Background
Policy issues in scaling up of aid flows
Highlights of a spring meetings dialogue hosted by the IMF on scaling-up aid, where senior Fund staff Peter Heller walked out.
Social services
Background
Evaluating the impact of the PRGF: The cases of Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia
Highlights of a civil society dialogue on the IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, at the World Bank spring meetings in Washington, 20 April 2006.
Infrastructure
Background
World Bank dialogue on the clean energy investment framework
Highlights of a World Bank-organised dialogue on its new clean energy investment framework at the spring meetings in Washington, 24 April 2006.
IFI governance
Background
Briefing on the implementation of new IFC performance standards
Briefing on the implementation of new IFC performance standards at the World Bank-IMF spring meetings in Washington, 20 April 2006.
Conditionality
Background
Dialogue on national development strategies and the Millennium Development Goals
Dialogue on national development strategies and the Millennium Development Goals at the World Bank-IMF spring meetings in Washington, 20 April 2006.
Finance
Background
Dialogue on Fund role in middle-income countries
Dialogue on Fund role in middle-income countries at the World Bank-IMF spring meetings in Washington, Thursday 20 April.
IFI governance
News
Highlights of the World Bank - IMF spring meetings 2006
The Bretton Woods Project summarises the news, meetings and protests in Washington at the 2006 spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF. The big issues that everyone was talking about this year were corruption and the Fund's strategic review.
IFI governance
News
WB-IMF spring meetings schedule
Tentative schedule of the World Bank-IMF spring meetings in Washington, April 21 - 23, 2006.
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Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for deeper reforms of the global reserve system to address systemic inequalities
Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.