Finance
Analysis
28 April 2004 | Paper
Resources
Finance
Commentary
28 April 2004 | Statement
IMFC communique
IFI governance
Commentary
28 April 2004 | Statement
Development Committee communique
IFI governance
News
27 April 2004
Colleen Freeman and Peter Bossard, at World Bank and IMF gatherings
Colleen Freeman is a policy analyst at Friends of the Earth-U.S. and Peter Bossard is policy director at International Rivers Network. They took part in discussions between environmental and other nonprofit groups and officials of the World Bank and IMF in the lead-up to the institutions' annual spring meetings held April 24-25.
IFI governance
News
27 April 2004
Danger ahead as steam runs out
Comment on the outcomes of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2004.
IFI governance
News
26 April 2004
Africa Seeks Better Representation in IMF/World Bank
African Heads of Finance Ministries have expres-sed strong resentment to the minimal representation of the continent in decision making positions and processes of the International Mone-tary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. The countries also called for a review of voting formula with a view to increasing the voice and participation of developing countries.
IFI governance
News
26 April 2004
Outsiders want seat at IMF table
Analysis of IMF head selection process.
WB/IMF roles
News
25 April 2004
Sixty years are enough!
The quarter century cross-country experiences have proved that policies of the IFIs do not work for the poor and countries suffered more who followed their market fundamentalism prescriptions.
Knowledge
News
25 April 2004
Development goals may not be achieved: World Bank
The poor in many countries face little hope of emerging from their lives steeped in deprivation unless the world community takes urgent action to address the root causes of poverty, a report of the World Bank has said.
IFI governance
News
20 April 2004
Rato in line for IMF top job, Ashley Seager
Rights
News
19 April 2004
Close World Bank climate change fund, demand NGOs
More than 50 environmental and social justice NGOs and other groups have sent a letter of protest to the World Bank calling for the closure of its new emissions trading fund, The Prototype Carbon Fund.
Rights
News
19 April 2004
Ghana water champion wins award, Alex Kirby
Rudolf Amenga-Etego, who is campaigning against a privatisation scheme being backed by the World Bank, has won a 2004 Goldman environmental prize.
