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IFI governance

News

3 October 2012

Changing the allocation of special drawing rights

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.

Finance

Background

2 October 2012 | Minutes

UK Civil Society Meeting with UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs

Notes of a meeting with UK executive director to the IMF Alex Gibbs in October 2012

IFI governance

News

2 October 2012

US blocks IMF governance reform

An IMF governance reform deal agreed in November 2010 has been stalled by US Congress' failure to grant it approval.

IFI governance

News

2 October 2012

External panel to review IMF's Independent Evaluation Office

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.

Accountability

News

2 October 2012

World Bank back in on Padma bridge project?

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

Conditionality

News

13 September 2012

IMF steps into debate over monetary policy, independence at Bank of Thailand

The challenge of maintaining growth amid a global slowdown has sparked fierce debates over Thailand's monetary policy.

Land

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15 August 2012 | Minutes

Notes of meeting between UK Executive Director to World Bank Susanna Moorehead and UK civil society

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.

Accountability

Background

3 August 2012 | Minutes

IFI re-engagement in Burma

Minutes of Burma and IFIs meeting, Washington DC, 18 April 2012

IFI governance

News

3 July 2012

IMF surveillance not yet integrated

IMF integrated surveillance decision delayed.

Conditionality

News

3 July 2012

Eurozone meltdown: IMF providing "political cover"

As European elections show the public increasingly rejecting austerity, critics call on the IMF to focus on the flaws of the eurozone rather than austerity in country programmes.

Finance

News

3 July 2012

IMF pushes for fully convertible yuan

After high-level talks in May, Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan announced US support for the inclusion of the yuan in the currency basket for the IMF's special drawing rights, the international reserve assets issued by the Fund. While this supports Chinese plans to make the yuan an alternative reserve currency alongside the US dollar and the euro, IMF recommendations for China to speed up the move to convertibility and fully open its capital account have attracted domestic criticism.