Resources

Rights

News

1 October 2003

World Bank responds to environmentalists, Tad Walch

The World Bank isn't the monster it is portrayed to be by environmental groups, according to a study co-authored by a Brigham Young University professor.

Conditionality

News

1 October 2003

Brazil, Argentina and the IMF: hard or soft

IFI governance

News

1 October 2003

Too soft, too open, too democratic?

Knowledge

Analysis

29 September 2003 | Briefings

Le savoir de la Banque: science infuse ou vrai d

French version of 'Blinding with science or encouraging knowledge?', a briefing looking at how World Bank policies determine countries' poverty reduction strategies

Finance

News

26 September 2003

IMF, Bank move into Middle East – too fast?

Rights

Background

26 September 2003 | Resource

Civil society documents on Bank/Fund AGM 2003

Listing of documents produced for Bank/Fund annual meeting.

IFI governance

Commentary

25 September 2003 | Statement

Development Committee Final Communique, 22 September 2003

Final communique of the World Bank's Development Committee, 22 September 2003

Rights

Commentary

25 September 2003 | Statement

IMFC Final Communique, 21 September 2003

Communique of the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, 21 September 2003.

IFI governance

News

25 September 2003

Growing gulf between rich and poor, Rick Rowden

The first Arab-hosted annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in the Gulf state Dubai, which ended on Wednesday, exposed the widening gap between rich and developing nations.

IFI governance

News

24 September 2003

African countries demand democracy in IMF, World Bank, Webster Malido

African countries have expressed their disappointment at the lack of progress in democratising the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

IFI governance

News

23 September 2003

Talks on World Bank representation stall

Social services

News

22 September 2003

Will the World Bank’s plans work?, Rick Rowden

Poor countries fear that the Bank and the Fund, at their annual meetings in Dubai, will repeat the mantra of the rich world in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun.