Rights
Analysis
25 September 2002 | Reports
Resources
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
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
25 March 2002 | Briefings
Taken for granted? US Proposals to Reform the World Bank’s IDA Examined
US debt campaigners are siding with the Bush administration against European leaders and other NGOs over a key source of finance for the world's 79 poorest countries. Discussions on the pros and cons of providing grants instead of loans through IDA appear deadlocked (March 2002).
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
25 March 2002 | Briefings
Taken for granted? US Proposals to Reform the World Bank’s IDA Examined
US debt campaigners are siding with the Bush administration against European leaders and other NGOs over a key source of finance for the world's 79 poorest countries. Discussions on the pros and cons of providing grants instead of loans through IDA appear deadlocked (March 2002).
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
25 October 2001 | Reports
For richer, for poorer? G8 proposals for IMF reform
Analysis of the proposals made by the most powerful governments for reforming the IMF. Should the institution pursue financial crisis prevention and management, as well as its traditional role of macroeconomic stabilisation? How do these roles fit with its new mandate of tackling poverty reduction? (October 2001)
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
25 October 2001 | Reports
For richer, for poorer? G8 proposals for IMF reform
Analysis of the proposals made by the most powerful governments for reforming the IMF. Should the institution pursue financial crisis prevention and management, as well as its traditional role of macroeconomic stabilisation? How do these roles fit with its new mandate of tackling poverty reduction? (October 2001)
Knowledge
Background
25 September 2001 | Humour
Gateway cartoon
Knowledge
Analysis
25 September 2001 | Briefings
Development through the looking glass: the Knowledge Bank in Cyber-space
Briefing examining the rise of the "Knowledge Bank" and how the World Bank has been threatened by, and now taken advantage of, the internet. Paper originally prepared for Oxford International Conference on Education and Development (September 2001).
Knowledge
Analysis
18 June 2001 | Reports
A Tower of Babel on the internet?
WB/IMF roles
Analysis
25 February 2001 | Briefings
IMF governance Update, February 2001
Knowledge
Analysis
25 September 2000 | Briefings
Profiling Problem Projects: Making the Case for Change at the International Finance Corporation
An analysis of the policies and projects of the World Bank Group's main private sector financing arm. CIEL and others September 2000.
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The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2024
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Is the World Bank rolling back commitments to citizen engagement, again?
Understanding the Bank’s chequered history with public, community and civil society participation is key for understanding what is at stake and what to do next.
3 June 2024
A way out for IMF reform
New paper analyses the IMF 16th Quota Review and identifies key governance reforms feasible in the current economic and geopolitical context.