Environment
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Reports
Resources
Knowledge
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Briefings
Leading economist cites short-comings of draft Bank sustainability report
Conditionality
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Briefings
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (2-page version)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
Conditionality
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Briefings
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (2-page version)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
Conditionality
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Briefings
New Strategies, Old Loan Conditions
Conditionality
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Review
PRSP beyond the theory
IFI governance
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Briefings
New Leaf Or Fig Leaf? The challenge of the new Washington consensus, Brendan Martin
This briefing discusses the key elements of the Bank's intellectual and policy repositioning in recent years. It concludes that the World Bank has made some changes to its orthodox Washington Consensus, but that these are not sufficient to guide us to a sustainable, equitable and democratic future. For this the power of transnational companies and rich country governments must be tackled more directly. By Brendan Martin (April 2000).
Conditionality
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Reports
The “Perestroika Of Aid”? New Perspectives On Conditionality
This report considers the factors which have led to a proliferation of conditionality and the growing acceptance that it is not an effective tool for persuading governments to make reforms. It proposes that an alternative is to encourage "ownership" and to base lending agreements on "poverty focused" programmes developed at the national level (1999).
Conditionality
Analysis
24 May 2003 | Reports
The “Perestroika Of Aid”? New Perspectives On Conditionality
This report considers the factors which have led to a proliferation of conditionality and the growing acceptance that it is not an effective tool for persuading governments to make reforms. It proposes that an alternative is to encourage "ownership" and to base lending agreements on "poverty focused" programmes developed at the national level (1999).
Conditionality
Analysis
23 May 2003 | Briefings
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (full briefing)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
Conditionality
Analysis
23 May 2003 | Briefings
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (full briefing)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
Rights
Analysis
3 May 2003 | Reports
World Bank and IMF need Security Council Resolution to Enter Iraq
The issue of whether a UN Security Council resolution is necessary if the Bretton Woods institutions are to be involved in the reconstruction of Iraq appears to have opened up divisions between the Development Committee (which comprises finance ministers on the boards of both the IMF and the World Bank) and the officials of these two institutions.
Featured briefings
6 April 2023
World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2023
5 April 2023
The IMF at the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The need for governance reform
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.
5 April 2023
The global financial architecture and the international debt crisis: An urgent call for reform
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.