Western Europe

Rights

News

Project office move, new grant

After four and a half years based in Christian Aid’s building in Waterloo the Bretton Woods Project has moved.

11 August 2000

Finance

News

Brown’s Committee Is “Political Whitewash”

Bank and Fund staff have complained that the Joint IMF-World Bank Implementation Committee (JIC), which has been established to coordinate work on the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) program is just “political whitewash”.

14 June 2000

Accountability

News

UK companies lead Bank hall of corruption shame

Over half of companies breaching World Bank guidelines on fraud and corruption are British.

14 June 2000

WB/IMF roles

News

UK Strategy on World Bank

In March the UK Department for International Development published its Institutional Strategy Paper on the World Bank Group.

14 June 2000

Rights

News

Project recognised in networking award

The Bretton Woods Project was first runner up in GreenNet’s Networker of the year award for its website, launched last year.

14 June 2000

IFI governance

News

Blair appeal on global institutions

At the Davos Economic Summit in January UK Prime Minister Tony Blair called for serious debate about reforming global institutions.

15 April 2000

IFI governance

News

Treasury Committee supports UK transparency

The UK should be more transparent about the decisions it takes at the IMF recommends the UK’s Treasury Committee in its February 2000 report on the IMF.

15 April 2000

Accountability

News

Kenyans reject new WB and IMF lending

The Stakeholders Support Group (SSG), formed by Kenyan opposition party members, lawyers and NGOs, is protesting against the resumption of IMF lending, saying that the government has not made the necessary reforms to stamp out corruption.

15 April 2000

News

Democratising Global Economy and Culture

The University of Helsinki is organising a conference exploring cosmopolis and opportunities for reforming global governance from 2-3rd June 2000.

15 April 2000

Conditionality

News

UK ED quizzed on UK role in Bank and Fund

In October UK Executive Director Stephen Pickford was called before the Treasury and International Development Select Committees for questioning by MPs.

15 December 1999

News

Cambridge to London office

Sarah Cambridge has joined the World Bank’s London office to manage the outreach programme in the UK and Ireland.

15 December 1999

News

UK ISP still AWOL

Over a year after it was due to come out and after initial consultations were held with NGOs, the Department for International Development (DFID) has still not published its Institutional Strategy Paper on the World Bank Group.

15 September 1999