News
26 April 2003
Stability, Growth, Poverty Reduction, the UK and the IMF, 2002
Annual UK report on the IMF for 2002.
Resources
Conditionality
Analysis
17 April 2003 | Reports
World Economic Outlook, April 2003
Analysis
11 April 2003 | Briefings
Stability, growth and poverty reduction: The UK and the IMF 2002
UK Treasury's annual report to Parliament sets out the UK's relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the last year, and highlights key priorities going forward.
Accountability
Analysis
9 April 2003 | Briefings
DFID briefing note on the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank
Outlines UK objectives for the Spring Meetings including agenda items of both the IMFC (crisis prevention and resolution, assistance to low-income countries) and the Development Committee (monitoring and scaling-up MDGs, enhancing developing country voice, donor harmonisation, and coherence among multilateral organisations).
Environment
Analysis
3 April 2003 | Briefings
NGO guide to the World Bank’s new Forests Policy, Marcus Colchester
Rights
Analysis
8 November 2002 | Paper
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence, Dean Baker
Accountability
Analysis
6 November 2002 | Briefings
UK ministers set out annual meetings objectives
As a response to calls for transparency the UK ministers which determine UK policy towards the World Bank and IMF now release a note setting out their objectives for each World Bank/IMF annual and spring meetings. Their September 2002 note covers issues including measuring results, education, and governance of the Bank and Fund.
Rights
Analysis
25 September 2002 | Reports
Promoting, Respecting And Fulfilling Human Rights: The Challenge Before Intergovernmental Agencies
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).
