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IFI governance

Commentary

Timely Canadian action on governance reform

The Bretton Woods Project would like to sincerely thank the Honorable James M. Flaherty, Canada's finance minister, for his kind end June response to a letter we sent him about leadership selection at the IFIs.

3 July 2012 | Humour

IFI governance

News

World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2011

Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2011. This page is being updated regularly.

26 September 2011

Accountability

News

US legislators try to cut funding to IFIs

In late July, a US House of Representatives sub committee, now controlled by the Republican party, moved to slash funding to multilateral institutions.

14 September 2011

Infrastructure

News

US cuts funding to World Bank Climate Fund

The Clean Technology Fund (CTF), one of the controversial Bank-housed Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), was a victim of the 2011 US budget deal, which passed in April.

14 June 2011

IFI governance

News

World Bank failing on racial diversity?

Africa Report, a magazine focussing on African politics and economics, has scrutinised racial diversity in Bank staffing, and claims that black Africans and African-Americans remain underrepresented

29 November 2010

IFI governance

News

World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2010

Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly.

12 October 2010

Land

News

US pledges to controversial World Bank agriculture fund

The US administration is seeking to allocate $1.6 billion to its global agriculture and food security initiative. Of this, $408 million has been earmarked for the global agriculture and food security programme (GAFSP), a new multi-donor trust fund, to be managed by the World Bank.

16 April 2010

Rights

News

Compensation for anti-IFI protestors

The city of Washington has agreed to pay $13.7 million to 700 protestors and bystanders mistreated by police during demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2000.

15 February 2010

IFI governance

News

World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2009

Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly.

4 October 2009

IFI governance

News

World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2008

At this year's annual meetings, the focus will of course be on the financial crisis gripping the rich countries of the world. Questions remain as to whether important issues around the World Banks role in climate change and its even governance structure will get the attention they deserve.

12 October 2008

IFI governance

News

World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2008

At this year's spring meetings, the World Bank faced increasing opposition to its plans to tackle climate change, while the IMF was forced to admit that the lack of democracy in its governance is probably why it missed the boat on the credit crisis.

15 April 2008

Conditionality

News

NGOs urge Congressional intervention on IMF gold sales

A coalition of over 70 US NGOs, including large labour unions, has written to Congress to demand that planned IMF gold sales pay for debt relief as well administrative expenses.

1 April 2008