Nick Stern, professor at the London School of Economics and former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will succeed Joseph Stiglitz as World Bank chief economist.
International
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Toolkits for activists on the World Bank
Washington DC-based NGO Bank Information Centre (BIC) has produced toolkits to help citizens more effectively engage with and influence the World Bank.
IFI governance
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A case for quarantine?
Meanwhile Joseph Stiglitz has accepted a post as chairman of Wall Street investment firm Brookdale which specialises in emerging markets.
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Bank/Fund videos wanted
Friends of the Earth International, one of the main organisers of the NGO events surrounding the Annual meeting of the World Bank and IMF, this September in Prague, is organising a two day video festival, where documentaries related to IMF/World Bank activities will be shown for a wide audience, connected with debates and presentations.
Finance
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Stiglitz supports workers
In a parting shot as he departed the Bank on February 1st, Joseph Stiglitz, in an interview with the International Herald Tribune, said the interests of poor countries had not been “adequately represented in a lot of the international fora”, even when decisions were potentially harmful to them.
Social services
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Gender and Poverty Assessments
An assessment of how gender has been incorporated into six World Bank poverty assessments reveals great variation in the way that gender is treated.
Social services
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The challenge of the New Washington Consensus
A new briefing examining the Bank’s reassessment of the Washington Consensus and the influence of Stiglitz’s work at the Bank has just been published by the Bretton Woods Project and Public Services International.
Finance
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Millennium Lottery
A new report from Christian Aid, Millennium Lottery, Who Lives, Who Dies in an Age of Third World Debt, looks at how debt and structural adjustment hinders development through the lens of health in Africa.
Rights
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Washington focus for globalisation protests
Activists from across the US will converge in Washington to protest at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.
Environment
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A role for positive conditionality?
A new report from the World Resources Institute examines to what extent, and under what conditions, the World Bank can be an effective proponent of forest policy reform through adjustment lending.
Accountability
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Kenyans reject new WB and IMF lending
The Stakeholders Support Group (SSG), formed by Kenyan opposition party members, lawyers and NGOs, is protesting against the resumption of IMF lending, saying that the government has not made the necessary reforms to stamp out corruption.
Knowledge
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Voices of the Poor study oversold by Bank
In mid-March the World Bank launched the first of a new set of studies, Voices of the Poor.
Featured briefings
12 December 2024
The Bretton Woods Observer: Winter 2024
12 December 2024
Missing in action: accountability is noticeably absent from the World Bank Group’s new Corporate Scorecard
The Corporate Scorecard’s accountability gap is symptomatic of a broader failure on the part of the WBG to fully internalise, integrate and learn from the work of its accountability mechanisms.
16 October 2024