In the middle of a review of its lending facilities for low-income countries (LICs) and a funding drive for more concessional resources, the IMF is facing criticism over its conditionality and a review of its debt sustainability framework.
Western Europe
Land
News
IFC supporting food speculation?
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Bank's private sector arm, has attracted criticism for its purchase of a 6 per cent stake in Armajaro Trading, a London-based commodity trading house founded by controversial hedge fund trader, Anthony Ward.
News
Sargon Nissan joins the Project
We are delighted to welcome Sargon Nissan as the new manager of the Bretton Woods Project's work programme on IMF and finance.
IFI governance
Background
Austerity in the Eurozone
Seminar at the Spring meetings 2012, 19 April 12
Accountability
Background
UK civil society meeting UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs
Notes of a meeting with UK executive director to the IMF Alex Gibbs in April 2012
Social services
News
IMF in Europe: doomed to fail?
The IMF has scaled back its percentage stake in the Greek loan package but remains assertive in the eurozone, calling for more austerity raising questions over whether periphery nations will play along.
Infrastructure
News
False solutions? The IFC, private equity and climate finance
As the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Bank's private-sector arm, announces new investments in its climate-focused private equity fund, critics argue that investing scarce public climate funds in the financial sector is of unproven effectiveness, will miss the world's poorest regions and has questionable developmental impacts.
News
Job vacancy: Programme Manager IMF
This leadership role is an exciting opportunity to make a real contribution to influencing international financial institutions so they work for poverty eradication and reducing inequality.
Land
Background
Notes of meeting between Stewart James, Alternate UK Executive Director to the World Bank, and NGOs
Civil society organisations met UK Executive Director to the World Bank and staff from the Department for International Development to discuss agriculture, land grabs, food security, the safeguards review process, the selection of the next World Bank president, the doing business indicators, and the debt sustainability framework.
IFI governance
Analysis
Memorandum by the Bretton Woods Project for the UK Treasury Committee
It is widely accepted that global imbalances were a major contributing factor to the recent global financial crisis. In written evidence submitted to the UK Treasury Committee, we argue that there are four main underlying causes and three areas of major reform needed.
Finance
News
IMF and capital flows: all talk, no solution
As the IMF and Bank of England predict that increasing volatility of global capital flows will motivate widespread use of capital controls, academics and civil society organisations are calling for coordinated global solutions.
Conditionality
News
IMF in a euromess?
The IMF responds to calls from European leaders to get more involved in the European debt crisis through greater lending to the region, however, the austerity policies being demanded are stoking further criticism from civil society organisations.
