With 13 of the IMF's 20 Washington-based departments facing a change of leadership, the IMF may be at its most malleable state ever, offering managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn a chance to put his imprint on the institution.
Voting rights
IFI governance
Background
Briefing on the World Bank's Six Strategic Themes
Minutes of a briefing by World Bank staff on the WBG's six strategic themese
IFI governance
Background
Briefing on the new IFC-IDA Secretariat
Notes from a briefing by World Bank staff on the new IFC-IDA joint secretariat
IFI governance
News
IMF governance renovations: fresh paint while foundations rot
The shareholders of the IMF have squandered the political will for governance reform of the institution by making marginal changes that will fail to shift the balance of power.
Accountability
News
Parliamentary committee scolds DFID for its World Bank infatuation
The UK's International Development Committee has sharply reprimanded the Department for International Development for its decision to hand over a fifty per cent increase in funding for the World Bank without sufficient analysis of whether or not this is good value for money.
IFI governance
Commentary
Charla del Banco del 2007
El uso del lenguaje inglés más incomprensible empleado por las instituciones de Bretton Woods durante el añ 2007.
IFI governance
News
Llamado en respaldo al retiro de Bolivia del ICSID
En enero del 2008, más de 800 grupos de ciudadanos de 59 países de todos los continentes presentaron una solicitud a Robert Zoellick, Presidente del Banco Mundial, exigiendo que el Banco respete la decisión de Bolivia de retirarse del Centro Internacional para la Presentación de Disputas sobre Inversiones.
IFI governance
Background
The IFIs and Islamic finance
The World Bank Group and the IMF have become more involved in assistance to and oversight of Islamic financial institutions.
IFI governance
Commentary
Bankspeak of the year 2007
Annual Bretton Woods Project award for the most incomprehensible or absurd use of language in a Bank or Fund document or speech.
IFI governance
News
Chinese tipped as Bank chief economist
Lin Yifu, or Justin Lin, was expected to be appointed as the Bank's chief economist, after the post had lain vacant for nearly four months.
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IMF surveillance and climate change transition risks
New briefing by ActionAid USA and the Bretton Woods Project highlights research showing that IMF policy advice has undermined a just energy transition since the Paris Agreement was signed.