At the close of March's IMF-Africa conference, South Africa's finance minister Trevor Manuel insisted that a clear message be sent to G20 leaders about the effect the financial crisis will have on African economies.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Environment
Commentary
Ghana's off-shore nightmare
The IFC ignored due process requirements mandated by the laws of Ghana in the case of the Jubilee oil field project and should not have considered the loan applications at the board. In so dong the IFC is encouraging the infringement of the basic rules of governance and transparency.
Accountability
News
Ghanaians calls for expulsion of Bank rep
In January, Ghana Web, a daily news and resource site, issued a sharp attack on the World Bank and its country representative in Ghana demanding that the president expel the World Bank country director in Ghana from his post.
Environment
News
Poznan and beyond
Recent UN global climate negotiations in Poland highlighted ongoing tension over whether funds will be channelled through the United Nations or the World Bank and once again shone a light on the role of the Bank as a major investor in carbon intensive projects.
Finance
Analysis
Africa and the making of adjustment
Development economist and professor of African studies Howard Stein examines the evolution of policy in the Bank, focusing on how economists became hegemonic. In this essay he details the origin of structural adjustment, tracing its roots back to a set of neoliberal economists who gained influence at the Bank in the late 1970s.
Conditionality
News
The IMF, fiscal space and development programmes
IMF programmes for low-income countries continue to restrict governments' choices of how to fund development and how to manage the trade-offs.
Rights
News
Bank paying workers poverty wages
Union Network International (UNI) is fighting the World Bank to ensure that their security workers are paid just wages.
Accountability
News
IFI inspection mechanisms slam Bank faults in Uganda and Nigeria
The Bujagali dam project in Uganda and the West Africa Gas Pipeline project in Nigeria have been roundly criticised by the World Bank's Inspection Panel.
Environment
News
New African dams to power mining
Two dam projects are being rushed to power the mining booms in Africa.
Infrastructure
Analysis
Facilitating whose power? WB and IMF policy influence in Nigeria's energy sector
Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the World Bank's energy portfolio still fails to reap the double dividend of renewable energy technologies that would tackle both energy poverty and climate change. Nigerian economic policies shaped by World Bank and IMF recommendations, policy agreements and conditionality have so far lead to a dysfunctional electricity privatisation process, a heavy and as yet unfulfilled reliance on reform of the gas sector, and the failure to make any widespread practical pr
Environment
News
World Bank powerless to end Chad abuses
Chadian president Idriss D
IFI governance
Commentary
Charla del Banco del 2007
El uso del lenguaje inglés más incomprensible empleado por las instituciones de Bretton Woods durante el añ 2007.
