26 October 2000
A selection of recent books and reports not mentioned in other articles.
Many people are wondering what the World Bank and IMF Prague annual meetings, plus associated independent discussions and protests amounted to.
Three new books and reports set out proposals for reorienting and improving global governance arrangements.
At the Annual Meetings South African Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel, demanded a more powerful voice for developing countries.
In mid-September the Bretton Woods Project coordinated a joint letter of protest on the World Bank’s Global Development Gateway plans.
The World Bank got a mixed response to the launch of its Poverty World Development Report in mid-September.
As the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is time the IMF’s shareholders use the opportunities provided by the anniversary and growing calls for reforms to the international financial architecture to redesign the IMF’s governance structures and programmes to ensure they are consistent with the commitments outlined in 1948 and with international human rights law.
Influence of unreformed international financial institutions and creditor interests in debt solutions in low- and middle-income countries plagued by delay and ineffective when undertaken.
