The World Economic and Social Survey 2012, published by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), has called for a change in the SDR allocation formula.
IMF research staff have joined external critics in saying that capital account regulation should be more widespread and better coordinated across recipient countries, setting the stage for a contentious final debate on an IMF institutional view on capital account management at end October.
Notes of a meeting with UK executive director to the IMF Alex Gibbs in October 2012
The World Bank has decided to reengage with Bangladesh's Padma bridge project after it suspended its promised $1.2 billion loan last year over allegations of corruption in the consultant selection process
In August, the IMF executive board appointed an external panel to review the work of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), the body that assesses the work of the IMF.
An IMF governance reform deal agreed in November 2010 has been stalled by US Congress' failure to grant it approval.
The challenge of maintaining growth amid a global slowdown has sparked fierce debates over Thailand's monetary policy.
Civil society organisations met UK Executive Director to the World Bank Susanna Moorehead and staff from the Department for International Development to discuss IDA, education finance, infrastructure finance, fragile states, agriculture and land, Doing Business rankings, Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia.
Minutes of Burma and IFIs meeting, Washington DC, 18 April 2012
We are delighted to welcome Sargon Nissan as the new manager of the Bretton Woods Project's work programme on IMF and finance.
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.
World Bank advice on taxes has been contradicted by a senior IMF representative who says that Uganda's tax system is "not fair".
The Corporate Scorecard’s accountability gap is symptomatic of a broader failure on the part of the WBG to fully internalise, integrate and learn from the work of its accountability mechanisms.
