Resources
Environment
Analysis
The Global Environment Facility: The First Ten Years – Growing Pains or Inherent Flaws?
Environment
Analysis
Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development
Knowledge
Analysis
Leading economist cites short-comings of draft Bank sustainability report
Conditionality
Analysis
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (2-page version)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
Conditionality
Analysis
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (2-page version)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.
Conditionality
Analysis
New Strategies, Old Loan Conditions
Conditionality
Analysis
PRSP beyond the theory
IFI governance
Analysis
New Leaf Or Fig Leaf? The challenge of the new Washington consensus, Brendan Martin
This briefing discusses the key elements of the Bank's intellectual and policy repositioning in recent years. It concludes that the World Bank has made some changes to its orthodox Washington Consensus, but that these are not sufficient to guide us to a sustainable, equitable and democratic future. For this the power of transnational companies and rich country governments must be tackled more directly. By Brendan Martin (April 2000).
Conditionality
Analysis
The “Perestroika Of Aid”? New Perspectives On Conditionality
This report considers the factors which have led to a proliferation of conditionality and the growing acceptance that it is not an effective tool for persuading governments to make reforms. It proposes that an alternative is to encourage "ownership" and to base lending agreements on "poverty focused" programmes developed at the national level (1999).
Conditionality
Analysis
The “Perestroika Of Aid”? New Perspectives On Conditionality
This report considers the factors which have led to a proliferation of conditionality and the growing acceptance that it is not an effective tool for persuading governments to make reforms. It proposes that an alternative is to encourage "ownership" and to base lending agreements on "poverty focused" programmes developed at the national level (1999).
Conditionality
Analysis
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality (full briefing)
The IMF says that streamlining will make conditionality more efficient, effective and focused. Careful scrutiny suggests there is still plenty to question in the new approach.