After Genoa, the next stop for the global protest caravan is the Bank and Fund annual meetings in Washington DC.
Transparency-WB/IMF
IFI governance
News
Journalists press for transparency
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the World Bank to publish adjustment loan documents, Country Assistance Strategies and Board Minutes or summaries of Board discussions.
Rights
News
Southern African Bank watch
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), based in Cape Town, South Africa, has launched a newsletter to monitor the World Bank and IMF activities in Southern Africa.
IFI governance
News
Bank civil society newsletter
The World Bank has re-launched its newsletter aimed at civil society groups.
Environment
News
Concern on African pipeline watchdog
In early March the World Bank Group announced a special International Advisory Group (IAG) to oversee the controversial Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project.
Conditionality
Analysis
Comments on the IMF staff’s review of conditionality
Bretton Woods Project comments on the IMF’s conditionality review
IFI governance
News
World Bank relations with parliamentarians enter new phase
World Bank interactions with parliamentarians have been increasing in recent years.
IFI governance
News
Pesticide companies chat with World Bank
A closed-door meeting between CEOs of leading pesticide/biotech companies and World Bank President James Wolfensohn in early December received strong opposition from Pesticide Action Network North America and 14 other NGOs.
Conditionality
News
IMF and WB conditionalities may be kept secret
As consultations on the World Bank’s disclosure policy move ahead, the Bank has taken steps which allow governments to withhold essential information to country stakeholders.
IFI governance
News
Post Prague
Many people are wondering what the World Bank and IMF Prague annual meetings, plus associated independent discussions and protests amounted to.
Featured briefings
9 June 2025
New data reveal World Bank DPF ‘climate finance’ carries strong private sector bias, undermining a just transition
New BWP briefing finds the World Bank counted 70 per cent of energy-sector reforms in Development Policy Financing as having 'climate co-benefits' between 2018-2023 - but most of these promoted a private-led energy transition.
15 April 2025
The Bretton Woods Observer: Spring 2025
2 April 2025