Resources

IFI governance

Analysis

29 October 2003 | Briefings

IMF Agreement with Brazil is legally questionable

Analysis and description of IMF agreement with Brazil based on a leaked confidential document agreed by the Cardoso Government and the IMF

Social services

News

28 October 2003

IMF-World Bank Must Stop Hurting the Poor – British Finance Minister

Rights

Background

22 October 2003 | Recruitment

Application instructions: Policy and Advocacy Officer

How to apply for the job vacancy at Bretton Woods Project.

Rights

Background

22 October 2003 | Recruitment

Role Profile Bretton Woods Project Policy and Advocacy Officer

Details of job at Bretton Woods Project

Finance

News

21 October 2003

IMF admits it is failing Africa, Martin Plaut

In a working paper published in Washington, two IMF researchers show that its programme to relieve the debt burden of some of the poorest countries in Africa may not produce a sustainable economic situation.

Rights

News

17 October 2003

Latin America revolts as IMF plans falter for poor

Finance

Background

15 October 2003 | Resource

Papers from the EPIAM workshop

Papers from the Ex Ante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic Policies (EPIAM) conference on macro-economic models.

Infrastructure

News

15 October 2003

World Bank Steps in to Save Hydropower Project, Ronald Muwanga

THE World Bank has stepped in to help fund the Uganda Bujagali hydropower project after US power giant AES Corporation pulled out of the project.

Rights

News

14 October 2003

World Bank’s IFC Approves EPZ Loan, Insists on Labour Standards, ICFTU Press Department

The World Bank’s private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation last week approved a loan of some US 20 million to the Dominican Republic’s largest Export Processing Zone operator, Grupo M, for a new development on the border with Haiti.

Rights

News

14 October 2003

Caspian project breaks World Bank rules on 173 counts

Conditionality

News

14 October 2003

Thousands Protest IMF Accord in Honduras

Thousands of protesters across Honduras blocked streets and burned tires Tuesday to demand the government not renew a debt payment agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

Rights

News

10 October 2003

World Bank arm OKs first loan to Haiti since 1998, Anna Willard

The World Bank's private sector financing arm has approved its first loan for Haiti since 1998, for a company making Levi jeans in a controversial free trade zone.