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Bretton Woods Update 21

  • Feb/Mar 2001
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IFI governance

News

World Bank relations with parliamentarians enter new phase

6 February 2001

World Bank interactions with parliamentarians have been increasing in recent years.

Conditionality

News

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.

6 February 2001

Conditionality

News

Language a barrier in Cambodia PRSP

Insufficient time and a failure to write documents in the national language limited the opportunity for NGO involvement in Cambodia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, according to the NGO Forum on Cambodia, which includes local and international NGOs.

6 February 2001

Finance

News

Is capital account liberalisation good for the poor ?

Experts gathered in Oxford in January to discuss the linkages between capital account liberalization (CAL) and poverty reduction at a meeting organized by Bretton Woods Project and Oxfam-GB and sponsored by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).

6 February 2001

Finance

News

UK government launches globalisation strategy

The UK white paper on globalization - endorsed by the entire UK Government - was published in December.

6 February 2001

Environment

News

Bank forest policy process crash

In early January a meeting was held in Washington to discuss the latest World Bank forest strategy.

6 February 2001

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World Bank & IMF in the news

Knowledge

News

6 February 2001

Bank net Gateway latest

The World Bank’s Global Development Gateway is proceeding gradually.

Knowledge

News

6 February 2001

Why officials and NGOs disagree on poverty analysis

Ravi Kanbur, who resigned as lead author of the World Bank’s Poverty World Development Report last May, has produced a paper on the disagreements which surround debates on poverty.

IFI governance

News

6 February 2001

UK parliament scrutinises IMF

In January the UK Treasury released its second Annual Report to Parliament on the Activities of the IMF.

Finance

News

6 February 2001

Health policy attacked

The People’s Health Conference 2000 criticized the World Bank’s health policies for being “anti-Third World”.

Infrastructure

News

6 February 2001

Indian power sector employees protest privatisation

More than a million electricity workers protested for a day in December against a proposed bill that follows “World Bank prescriptions” to privatize the power sector in India.

Rights

News

6 February 2001

New annual World Bank civil society forum

A new World Bank-Civil Society Forum will be held each year.

Land

News

6 February 2001

Kyrgyzstan land moratorium lifted

The five-year moratorium on the sale and purchase of land in Kyrgyzstan will be lifted.

News

6 February 2001

Bank strategy on governance

The World Bank has published a new strategy on governance.

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

G24 report on IFI governance agendas

The Group of 24 Southern countries published a research paper on “Governance-related conditionalities of the International Financial Institutions”.

Infrastructure

News

6 February 2001

Kenya faces new aid embargo

In January the IMF and World Bank threatened to cut off Kenya from more than $450 million in aid as a result of a parliamentary bill on interest rate controls.

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

Bolivian development processes

A new paper examines the different development framework processes in Bolivia and how they interrelate.

Rights

News

6 February 2001

World Bank to push for more adjustment lending

A draft World Bank report outlining experience with structural adjustment lending proposes that such lending should be increased.

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

Lack of impact assessments constrains policy choices

Due to a lack of information on impacts associated with adjustment reforms, there is still no discussion of realistic policy choices and trade-offs in Poverty Reduction Strategies, according to an Oxfam International letter sent to the heads of the Bank and Fund in December.

IFI governance

News

6 February 2001

Proposal on environmental impacts on adjustment

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have set out new proposals for assessing the environmental consequences of macro-economic reforms.

Knowledge

News

6 February 2001

Poverty process acronyms

Poverty process acronyms

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

Adjustment lending is “bad news” for poor: Bank study

An internal Bank report has concluded that the poor are better off without structural adjustment.

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

Bank governance strategy, G24 cautious

The World Bank has published a new strategy on governance.

Finance

News

6 February 2001

Dakar 2000: from resistance to alternatives

In December a meeting of campaigners in Dakar, Senegal assessed Africa’s debt crisis and the human effects of structural adjustment.

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

Local leaders criticise Nicaragua’s PRSP

The IMF has approved Nicaragua’s plans to fight poverty despite criticisms from local leaders.

News

6 February 2001

World Bank gives grants to Palestine

The World Bank has provided US$12m in grants to Palestine to help offset the effects of the economic crisis caused by the Israeli blockade.

News

6 February 2001

Davos and “anti-Davos”

The World Economic Forum, held 25-28 January 2001, saw many of the world’s business and political leaders convene in Davos, Switzerland.

Knowledge

News

6 February 2001

Banking on knowledge

A new book examines the World Bank’s reinvention as a “knowledge Bank” in the context of think tanks, NGOs and others trying to influence policies.

WB/IMF roles

News

6 February 2001

IMF critical of Indonesian decentralisation

The IMF is critical of the Indonesian’s government’s decentralization plans, which it believes could lead to excessive borrowing by regional governments.

Social services

News

6 February 2001

Critiquing social capital

This book by Ben Fine, Professor of Economics at SOAS, London, comprehensively critiques the theory and application of the concept of social capital.

News

6 February 2001

Protests against Bank meeting in India

On 17 January 150 people were arrested in Bhopal while marching against World Bank and Asian Development Bank policies.

Environment

News

6 February 2001

Earth Summit 2002 - A New Deal

A new book with ideas, experiences and expectations in preparation for next year’s World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg.

Environment

News

6 February 2001

New report on global warning

Scientists from 99 nations issued a report in late January that predicted severe climate change.

IFI governance

News

6 February 2001

Pesticide companies chat with World Bank

A closed-door meeting between CEOs of leading pesticide/biotech companies and World Bank President James Wolfensohn in early December received strong opposition from Pesticide Action Network North America and 14 other NGOs.

Rights

News

6 February 2001

New Freshwater Action Network

A new network has been launched to support NGO advocacy around freshwater issues.

Conditionality

News

6 February 2001

No more lending without forestry reforms

In January, local and international NGOs wrote to the World Bank demanding actions to achieve genuine forest reform in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Finance

News

6 February 2001

Loans for El Salvador emergency

The World Bank was accused of “behaving like vultures, like loan sharks” by US NGO 50 Years is Enough Campaign after it offered to help finance emergency relief efforts in El Salvador in the wake of January’s earthquake.

News

6 February 2001

New Project member

The Bretton Woods Project has been joined by a new Communications and Research Officer, Charlotte Carlsson.

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