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Bretton Woods Update 31

  • Nov/Dec 2002
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Social services

News

No pain, no gain: WDR 2004 on services

26 November 2002

Participants in a consultation meeting analyse the draft outline of the Bank’s World Development Report for 2004, “Making Services Work for the Poor”.

IFI governance

News

Real impact of new poverty analysis uncertain

NGOs have expressed concern that their objectives of opening up debates about different social and economic policy options are not being met through current approaches.

26 November 2002

Finance

Commentary

Fund threatens Brazilian democracy

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26 November 2002 | Guest comment

IFI governance

News

Bank on trade: will the real World Bank please stand up?

The Bank is divided between its role as advocate of the poorer countries in calling for increased market access and its continued hand in pushing unilateral trade liberalisation.

26 November 2002

Social services

News

Short gives evidence on World Bank to UK parliamentarians

MPs on the International Development Select Committee questioned Clare Short on: debt, PRSPs, PSIA, Bank governance, social and environmental policies, privatisation of services, education and trade capacity building.

26 November 2002

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World Bank & IMF in the news

Social services

News

26 November 2002

Ghana water privatisation disputed by independent analysts

An international fact-finding mission on plans to reform the water sector in Ghana made its conclusions public before the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF.

Social services

News

26 November 2002

Bolivia water latest

Bolivia provides further lessons from Bank-backed water privatisation.

Private Sector

News

26 November 2002

Spas, malls and five star hotels

As part of the World Bank Group, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a publicly funded, political-risk insurance provider, is supposed to share the Bank’s overarching goal of poverty alleviation and environmentally sustainable development.

Social services

News

26 November 2002

Guyana sued over nationalisation debt

A British company has taken a case to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) seeking

Rights

News

26 November 2002

UK ministers urged to clarify position on Baku-Ceyhan pipeline

Following a visit to the UK by activists from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey UK groups have sent relevant UK ministers a memorandum outlining 10 sets of issues, including assessment, consultation and compensation as well as corruption, debt and legal issues. They are demanding a response before the IFC takes a decision to move the project into its decision-making cycle (posted 18 Nov. 02).

Rights

News

26 November 2002

IFC pulls out of goldmine, considers pipeline

In early October the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced that it would not back the Rosia Montana goldmine in Romania.

Environment

News

26 November 2002

New claim on Chad-Cameroon project

Communities in Cameroon affected by the World Bank financed Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline have filed a new claim with the Bank’s Inspection Panel.

Land

News

26 November 2002

Process for agriculture assessment clarified

At a meeting in Dublin in early November the World Bank discussed the process for its new global assessment of agricultural science and technology.

Rights

News

26 November 2002

World Bank rejects controversial gold mine project

On October 10th, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private lending arm, announced that it would not financially support the controversial Rosia Montana gold mine project in Romania’s Apuseni mountains.

Environment

News

26 November 2002

Indigenous groups angered by Bank policy decisions

Indigenous peoples and NGOs supporting them have released angry statements about the World Bank’s indigenous peoples and forests policies.

Rights

News

26 November 2002

Human rights: little progress

The Bank is taking a softly-softly approach to human rights despite announcements earlier in the year that it wanted to clarify its position.

Social services

News

26 November 2002

Zen and the art of hand maintenance

The World Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership has launched the “handwashing initiative”, a public-private partnership to promote the use of soap to reduce the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases in poor communities.

News

26 November 2002

Changes to the Update, website

Responding to readers’ comments in our recent Update survey, this issue incorporates two changes.

News

26 November 2002

IFI watchnet calendar and webring

Organizations monitoring the international financial institutions (IFIs) worldwide have created a collaborative calendar of events at www.ifiwatchnet.org.

News

26 November 2002

Job opening with IFI watchnet

IFI watchnet is made up of organisations which monitor the international financial institutions.

Knowledge

News

26 November 2002

Bankspeak of the Year competition

Readers may have noticed some of the new terminology emanating from the Bank.

Finance

News

26 November 2002

IMF office releases first evaluation, considers next ones

The first report of the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) was released in September.

Conditionality

News

26 November 2002

IMF evaluation office: too technocratic ?

Correspondence between the IEO and the Bretton Woods Project following the publication of its first report

Finance

News

26 November 2002

Letter to IMF evaluation office on its work programme 2003/2004

Letter to IMF evaluation office on its work programme 2003/2004

Trade

Background

26 November 2002

Bank trade map

New Bretton Woods Update feature providing readers with an easy-to-understand summary of the Bank’s work on trade, relevant contacts and web information.

Knowledge

News

26 November 2002

World Bank: free press is good for you!

The World Association of Newspapers and the World Bank released a book evaluating the media’s role in either helping or hindering development.

Finance

News

26 November 2002

Argentina default pressures Krueger

After a record-breaking eleven months of failed talks with the IMF Argentina has, for the first time, defaulted on a payment to the World Bank.

Conditionality

News

26 November 2002

Conditionality through the back door?

’Streamlining’ of IMF conditionality failing expectations; cross-conditionality remains and the Fund has failed to debate the macro-economic framework.

Accountability

News

26 November 2002

Lesotho corruption verdict

Following a seven month trial, Canadian company Acres International was convicted on two counts of bribing an official to secure contracts for the Lesotho Highland Water Project, which received financing from the World Bank.

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