Environment
Background
1 May 2003
Resources
WB/IMF roles
News
1 May 2003
International demands regarding the invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq
News
26 April 2003
Stability, Growth, Poverty Reduction, the UK and the IMF, 2002
Annual UK report on the IMF for 2002.
Conditionality
Analysis
17 April 2003 | Reports
World Economic Outlook, April 2003
Analysis
11 April 2003 | Briefings
Stability, growth and poverty reduction: The UK and the IMF 2002
UK Treasury's annual report to Parliament sets out the UK's relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the last year, and highlights key priorities going forward.
Accountability
Analysis
9 April 2003 | Briefings
DFID briefing note on the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank
Outlines UK objectives for the Spring Meetings including agenda items of both the IMFC (crisis prevention and resolution, assistance to low-income countries) and the Development Committee (monitoring and scaling-up MDGs, enhancing developing country voice, donor harmonisation, and coherence among multilateral organisations).
Environment
Analysis
3 April 2003 | Briefings
NGO guide to the World Bank’s new Forests Policy, Marcus Colchester
Rights
Analysis
8 November 2002 | Paper
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence, Dean Baker
Accountability
Analysis
6 November 2002 | Briefings
UK ministers set out annual meetings objectives
As a response to calls for transparency the UK ministers which determine UK policy towards the World Bank and IMF now release a note setting out their objectives for each World Bank/IMF annual and spring meetings. Their September 2002 note covers issues including measuring results, education, and governance of the Bank and Fund.
Rights
Analysis
25 September 2002 | Reports
Promoting, Respecting And Fulfilling Human Rights: The Challenge Before Intergovernmental Agencies
Rights
Analysis
25 September 2002 | Reports
Promoting, Respecting And Fulfilling Human Rights: The Challenge Before Intergovernmental Agencies
Accountability
Background
15 June 2002 | Resource
Capacity for development, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Carlos Lopes and Khalid Malik
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World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2023
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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.