Some of the recommendations made in the diagnostic studies of the Integrated Framework touch upon sensitive areas in development policy such as privatisation, trade liberalisation and investment and competition policy.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Environment
News
UK MPs support Bushmen
A motion signed by 42 MPs urges the UK government to encourage Botswana to respect the rights of Botswana's Bushmen.
Conditionality
News
Debt and destruction in Senegal
A new report by Demba Moussa Demb
Accountability
News
Chadians "mourn" while World Bank and oil companies celebrate pipeline
The coalition of Human Rights Associations in Chad has called for a national day of mourning on October 10, the date of the official inauguration of the Chad Cameroon Oil Pipeline.
Land
News
Bank pushed policies likely to cause famine - book
A former Bank consultant has charged the Bank with pushing policies which would have led to the starvation of a third of a million people in Sierra Leone.
Conditionality
Commentary
The myths and dangers of PRSPs
The myths of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers - that they are nationally owned, pro-poor, and poverty-reducing - should be debunked.
Accountability
News
Bank silent on corporate corruption in Lesotho
Controversy over the call for debarment of a Canadian contractor is proving a litmus test of the Bank's commitment to apply the same standards to corrupt Northern companies as it does to Southern governments.
Conditionality
News
World Bank and IMF forcing privatisation: new report
Privatisation imposed by the World Bank and the IMF can be harmful to the most…
Environment
Commentary
Chad-Cameroon: oil and poverty reduction don’t mix
Despite World Bank involvement, the Chad Cameroon petroleum project has confirmed that under authoritarian regimes there is a fundamental incompatibility between poverty alleviation objectives and oil exploitation activities.
Accountability
News
IFC project on Bushmen’s land
Most of the Bushmen of a Kalahari reserve in Botswana have been evicted to make way for exploitation of diamonds. Now the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is funding further exploration.
Rights
News
Toxic waste dump or "world-class site"?
A new film points at contradictions in one of the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund projects in Durban, South Africa.
Conditionality
News
IMF paper on NEPAD
A new IMF working paper on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), calls the agreement "visionary".
