Rights
News
6 February 2001
New annual World Bank civil society forum
A new World Bank-Civil Society Forum will be held each year.
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IFI governance
Analysis
5 April 2001 | Briefings
Success or failure? Wolfensohn’s reforms at the World Bank
The World Bank is again trumpeting the changes it has made during Wolfensohn’s Presidency. But recent Bank documents reveal that many problems remain. These include a failure to institute a system for monitoring staff contributions to results in alleviating poverty, taking on too many global issues, and failing to balance global goals and national programmes. In a recent survey only 33% of developing country government officials said they thought the Bank was “effective” in hel
Conditionality
News
6 February 2001
New research on African PRSPs
A study for the Strategic Partnership for Africa of eight countries provides a useful summary of experience to date with producing interim PRSPs.
Environment
News
6 February 2001
Bank forest policy process crash
In early January a meeting was held in Washington to discuss the latest World Bank forest strategy.
Knowledge
Analysis
15 February 2001 | Briefings
Overstretched and Underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions
Argues that the Bank has become involved in too many issue areas and initiatives. There are significant tensions in trying to be a Bank, a social development agency, a Knowledge Bank and a Global Issues Bank all at the same time. Includes comments from Bank staff, parliamentarians and NGOs on how to resolve this (February 2001).
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
15 February 2001 | Briefings
Overstretched and Underloved: World Bank faces strategy decisions
Argues that the Bank has become involved in too many issue areas and initiatives. There are significant tensions in trying to be a Bank, a social development agency, a Knowledge Bank and a Global Issues Bank all at the same time. Includes comments from Bank staff, parliamentarians and NGOs on how to resolve this.
Finance
News
5 April 2001
PRSP case studies report
A new report summarises some of the continued challenges for participatory poverty reduction processes.
Conditionality
News
5 April 2001
Nicaraguan mayors call for consultation
Local government leaders in the Leon Norte area of Nicaragua have written to the World Bank to express their “deep concern about the development of the PRSP consultation in Nicaragua”
Conditionality
News
5 April 2001
Conditionality reduced but still “indispensable”
The numbers of conditions applied by the IMF may be reduced. But prior policy commitments and international codes and standards will be examined and in the area of governance, conditions may actually increase.
IFI governance
News
21 November 2005
WDR on equity: Practice what you preach
Civil society organisations welcomed many of the findings of the latest instalment of the World Bank's World Development Report on equity and development; question marks remain over its historical amnesia and the likelihood that the Bank will practice what it preaches.
Environment
News
8 April 2006
UK reports on World Bank and IMF: More work to do
The UK's Department for International Development and Treasury released in late March annual reports on their relationship with the World Bank and the IMF respectively.
Accountability
Background
4 October 2010 | Minutes
Meeting on the World Bank between DFID and UK NGOs
Notes of a meeting between UK civil society and DFID staff.
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