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17 April 2009

World Bank under fire over support for private sector health care

The debate over the World Bank's support for private sector investment in health care provision in developing countries is in the limelight again. A new report by Oxfam asserts that while the private sector can play a role in health care, evidence shows that only scaling up of private sector provision of services is likely to deliver health benefits for poor people.

Infrastructure

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17 April 2009

World Bank still supporting carbon-intensive future

The World Bank Group will kick off the revision of its energy sector strategy, which is to take place during fiscal year 2010 with an issues paper due out this autumn. US based NGO Bank Information Center (BIC) recently published World Bank Energy Sector Lending: Encouraging the World's Addiction to Fossil Fuels, a study on the World Bank's approach to energy sector investments. The assessment finds that important gains in renewable energy and energy efficiency in recent years still do not compe

IFI governance

Background

23 April 2009 | Minutes

G20 Summit and impacts on developing countries

Summary of IMF and World Bank presentations and the discussion afterwards

Finance

News

17 April 2009

Not much on offer for poor countries to counter the crisis

The world's poor are being hard hit by a crisis for which they are not responsible. Low-income countries will face a financing gap of hundreds of billions of dollars this year. More than $2 trillion have been found to boost Northern economies and emerging markets. Yet richer countries have committed just over one twentieth of the additional development finance required to compensate low-income countries for the shock they face resulting from this crisis.

Accountability

Background

23 April 2009 | Minutes

Meeting between UK civil society and Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Develop

Minutes of a meeting between Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, and UK NGOs, 21 April 2009

Accountability

News

23 April 2009

El Banco Mundial y el FMI lanzan revisiones de transparencia

Los grupos de la sociedad civil sintiéndose muy conscientes de los problemas que tienen para ganar el acceso a la información en el Banco Mundial y el FMI, confían que las revisiones sobre la transparencia y la revelación de este año produzcan una mejora radica.

IFI governance

News

17 April 2009

IMF: Bigger but not much nicer

World leaders agreed at the G20 to treble the size of the IMF's resources, but critics worry about strengthening the Fund without fundamental reform of its governance and conditionality.

Finance

News

17 April 2009

Rethinking Finance

The work of several international NGOs, rethinking finance presents alternative ideas and analyses of the current financial and economic crisis and the reform of global financial architecture.

IFI governance

News

16 February 2009

IFC accountability: alright in theory

According to the 2008 Global Accountability Report, written by UK NGO the One World Trust, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) scores well compared to other international institutions on its accountability policies.

IFI governance

Commentary

16 February 2009 | Humour

Bankspeak of the year 2008

Annual Bretton Woods Project award for the most incomprehensible or absurd use of language in a Bank or Fund document or speech.

IFI governance

News

16 February 2009

World Bank's planned lending splurge: Do the numbers stack up?

The first signs of a promised dramatic increase in World Bank lending are emerging, but critics continue to attack the Bank’s lending practices, including its controversial use of conditionality.

Environment

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16 February 2009

The IFC's massive lending increase

The financial crisis has shrunk credit availability to the private sector, including in developing countries. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to step into the gap, but there are questions about the likely development impact and implementation of environmental and social safeguards.