The Bretton Woods Project has been working with Both ENDS and other organisations to discuss a possible meeting to discuss the fundamental way that the World Bank/IMF measure development: economic growth.
International
Finance
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“New debt crisis”
Investors’ growing aversion to risk is leading to a general withdrawal of finance from many Southern countries.
Finance
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Middle-income country charges up
To halt the decline in its income, the World Bank has raised the charges middle-income…
Accountability
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Brazil Congress reviews IFIs
In August a Commission of the Brazilian Congress held a hearing to examine the multilateral financial institutions.
IFI governance
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East Asia Crisis group examines NGO roles
The World Bank has established an East Asia Crisis working group to tackle some of the social aspects of the financial crisis.
Social services
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NGO network on health and adjustment
A new European network has been established to work on the health impacts of debt and adjustment and promote good health policies.
IFI governance
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SAPRI initiative meetings
Civil society groups in Hungary, Uganda, Ghana and Ecuador met World Bank representatives at national conferences to begin the investigative stage of the Structural Adjustment Programme Review Initiative (SAPRI).
IFI governance
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Senior Bank environment post kept after NGO letter
A joint NGO letter recently helped prevent a plan by World Bank Managing Directors to axe the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Vice Presidency (ESSD).
Knowledge
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Organising for the 2000 poverty report
The 2000 Report will tackle poverty and be led by Ravi Kanbur, of Cornell University in the USA, working with a team of Bank staff including Michael Walton, Director, Poverty Reduction.
Knowledge
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Official report critiques Bank poverty strategy
A new report, commissioned by the Government of Norway, reveals that the World Bank has a long way to go in clarifying and operationalising its poverty reduction objectives.
Rights
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Mining conference
A World Bank conference this July in Padang, Papua New Guinea, discussed “mining and the community in South-East Asia” but many NGOs known to represent mine-affected people were not invited.
Knowledge
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What is the WDR for, and how is it produced?
Given the lack of clarity and satisfaction about how WDRs are produced, and the difficulty of persuading the authors to recognise and include alternative views, the Bretton Woods Project has written to the Bank asking for a formal explanation.
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The IMF and World Bank talk good governance, but walk with state- capturers
From South Africa to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the Bank and Fund have demonstrated they are not appropriate allies to address the scale of the crisis the world is facing, especially, given their record.