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External review of IFI collaboration slow to start

The external review of Bank-Fund collaboration, announced at the end of March is only now getting off the ground.

19 June 2006

IFI governance

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Uninspiring choice for IMF deputy director

Rodrigo de Rato missed a chance to move the Fund away from its lack of transparency in management selection when he nominated US banker John Lipsky as his new deputy managing director.

19 June 2006

IFI governance

Analysis

Beware the big, bland wolf

What has most surprised World Bank watchers is how little Paul Wolfowitz has changed the institution he took over one year ago. On Africa, infrastructure, debt relief and the environment, he has stayed the course - for better or worse - set by his predecessor James Wolfensohn. On the high-profile issue of corruption, he has created a lot of noise, but many question whether or not he has a plan. Only in his management moves has he lived up to the fears - or in some cases wishes - of his critic

19 June 2006 | At Issue

IFI governance

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‘Cleaning’ energy

Environment and development groups have slated the World Bank’s ‘Clean energy and development: towards an investment framework’ for its perverse definition of clean energy, letting Northern polluters off the hook and neglecting the needs of the rural poor.

19 June 2006

IFI governance

News

World Bank to ditch enviromental unit?

Rumours are circulating in Washington that a planned re-organisation of the Bank may spell the end for the Bank's environmental unit.

19 June 2006

IFI governance

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Wolfowitz announces new managing directors

President Wolfowitz appointed Graeme Wheeler and Juan Jose Daboub to managing director positions in April.

19 June 2006

IFI governance

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African EDs urge top-up for capacity building

As the pilot phase of the Analytical Trust Fund, which finances research to support Sub-Saharan African executive directors' participation on the boards of the Bank and Fund, draws to a close, directors urge its replenishment.

19 June 2006

IFI governance

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European Parliament weighs in on future direction of IMF

On 14 March, the IMF came in for some heavyweight political criticism as the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the strategic review of the Fund.

16 March 2006

IFI governance

News

Fury at Wolfowitz political appointee

Kevin Kellems, advisor to Bank president Paul Wolfowitz since June 2005 and former spokesman for US vice president Dick Cheney, has been named director of strategy of the external affairs department.

23 January 2006