IFI governance

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Policing the policemen

The IMF has been urged to be more transparent and accountable by a US Study Group convened by the Centre of Concern, and by the UK Chancellor.

IFI governance

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Bank reform: what’s new?

In April the Bank’s Board discussed a progress report on the Strategic Compact: Wolfensohn’s reform package agreed one year ago.

Finance

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Preventing private sector debt crises

In addition to extending the IMF’s role, its governors have been examining measures to prevent future financial sector crises.

Knowledge

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Stiglitz questions outdated “Washington consensus”

Giving the WIDER annual lecture in Helsinki the World Bank Chief Economist called for a…

IFI governance

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Bank’s “new” adjustment programmes reviewed

The Bank is just completing a review of three years of "Higher Impact Adjustment Lending"…

Finance

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Loan costs set to rise

Borrowers from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the main World Bank lending arm, may have to pay higher charges for their loans in the future.

Finance

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J2000 mobilise 70,000

An estimated 70,000 people demonstrated in Birmingham to call on G8 leaders to cancel poor countries’ unpayable debts.

Finance

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Private flows slowdown

Private capital flows fell sharply in the latter half of 1997 after having risen in the beginning of the year, as short-term capital flowed out of emerging markets in the wake of the Asian crisis.

Knowledge

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Measuring Knowledge

The 1998 World Development Report (WDR) will address issues of “Knowledge and Information for Development”.

Rights

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G24 should build bridges with Southern NGOs

A recent paper argues that Southern governments should foster and expand democratic dialogue with NGOs in their countries.

Rights

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Regulating or Freeing NGOs?

The Bank-commissioned Handbook on Good Practices for Laws Relating to Non-Governmental Organisations has been criticised in a report by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.

Rights

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Sydney Workers’ Rights Push

World Bank officials at a conference in Sydney last November were pressed by AID/WATCH and trade union officials to introduce mandatory labour standards.