Conditionality

News

Brazil renews "unnecessary" IMF agreement despite opposition

17 November 2003

Brazil and the IMF announced they would renew a financial arrangement at the end of the year, sparking new doubts about the methods and motives of Lula's government. The news came shortly after Rede Brasil, a network of Brazilian NGOs and social movements, urged the government not to sign.

Knowledge

Analysis

Leading a horse to water: Is there a role for the IMF in poverty reduction?

Many observers were sceptical when a few years ago the IMF embarked on a mission to respond to the "cries of the poor", in the words of its then head Michel Camdessus

25 November 2003 | At Issue

Environment

News

Indigenous Peoples Policy delayed

On 20 October, World Bank Vice President Ian Johnson responded to Extractive Industries Review Eminent Person Emil Salim confirming that the Bank will delay finalisation of the Indigenous Peoples Policy until the first quarter of 2004.

24 November 2003

Conditionality

News

Debt and destruction in Senegal

A new report by Demba Moussa Demb

24 November 2003

Private Sector

Commentary

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline

Around the world, when politics and money prevail, the environment is the last issue considered.…

17 November 2003 | Guest comment

IFI governance

Background

The World Bank and civil society

A brief look at the history of World Bank-CSO relations, who's who in the World Bank for civil society actors and some future steps planned by the Bank.

17 November 2003 | Inside the institutions

Conditionality

News

Official report confirms PRSP criticisms

A report produced by the Bank and Fund for their annual meetings reflects on the continuing problems with implementing the lofty goals of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.

17 November 2003

Knowledge

News

Making Poverty and Social Impact Analysis happen

An international meeting has set down plans for development agencies to take forward work on assessing the likely impact of World Bank/IMF-backed reforms.

17 November 2003

Rights

News

IFC “doubts” labour fears in Haiti, approves loan

The International Finance Corporation approved a loan of $20 million to the Dominican Republic's largest Export Processing Zone operator, Grupo M, for a new development on the border with Haiti.

17 November 2003

Rights

News

Meeting: ‘milestone’ or ‘millstone’ for Bank/civil society relations?

Concerns have been raised about a new high-level initiative involving the World Bank and selected civil society groups.

17 November 2003

Accountability

News

World Bank trade capacity building: “doing it for them”

A leaked copy of the evaluation of the Integrated Framework for trade-related capacity building for Least Developed Countries should lead observers to question the World Bank's chief role in the initiative.

17 November 2003

Trade

News

BWI reform discussed at UN dialogues

The Financing for Development (FfD) process held its first high-level follow-up to assess progress over three days in New York, 28 - 30 October.

5 November 2003