The G20 released its conclusions for how countries should manage capital flows, while internal papers suggest the IMF’s slow moves to accept national regulations on international capital flows continues.
A state's relationship with the IFIs and the type of assistance it receives is determined by its country classification. Some crucial types of classifications are: the World Bank's operational lending categories; the Bank's analytical categories used in the World Development Report; the IMF's operational and analytical categories, the IFC's frontier market category; the Bank's fragile state category; and the distinctions used by the Bank and IMF in deciding on and reporting success in governance
As the November Durban climate talks approach, the World Bank continues to be overshadowed by past and prospective loans for fossil-fuel power plants.
While the G20 postponed decisions on issuing new special drawing rights (SDRs), the IMF-managed international reserve asset, the IMF completed its surveillance review and a new Fund report tackled the thorny issue of global imbalances.
Notes meeting Alex Gibbs September 2011
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Notes of a meeting, Washington DC, 21 September 2011
Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2011. This page is being updated regularly.
Notes of a meeting, Washington DC, 22 September 2011
Notes of a meeting, Washington DC, 21 September 2011
Notes of meeting, Washington DC, September 22, 2011
On the 40th anniversary of US default on its gold convertibility obligation, decreasing confidence in the dollar has strengthened calls to reform the international monetary system. The IMF is accused of ignoring inequities at the core of the system, while developing countries are increasingly seeking alternative regional arrangements.
