Resources

Environment

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Briefings

Managing Sustainability World-Bank Style

Brought together by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, this report offers a critique of the WDR which is to feature prominently in the World Bank's activities at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg later this month. Contributors include Marieke Huysentruyt for the Bretton Woods Project, Herman Daly, and Raj Patel.

Environment

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Briefings

The World Bank’s Genuine Savings Indicator: A Useful Measure of Sustainability?

10 page briefing assessing a new World Bank measure of development. The genuine savings indicator is intended to be an alternative to GNP growth and is being featured in a number of Bank publications. Whilst a helpful first step in recognising the need to look factors other than economic production, the genuine savings figures ignore or downplay crucial issues, including international economic relations.

Environment

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Briefings

The World Bank’s Genuine Savings Indicator: A Useful Measure of Sustainability?

10 page briefing assessing a new World Bank measure of development. The genuine savings indicator is intended to be an alternative to GNP growth and is being featured in a number of Bank publications. Whilst a helpful first step in recognising the need to look factors other than economic production, the genuine savings figures ignore or downplay crucial issues, including international economic relations.

Environment

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Reports

Transnational corporate beneficiaries of World Bank fossil fuel projects

Environment

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Reports

The Global Environment Facility: The First Ten Years – Growing Pains or Inherent Flaws?

Environment

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Reports

Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development

Knowledge

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Briefings

Leading economist cites short-comings of draft Bank sustainability report

Conditionality

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Briefings

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

24 May 2003 | Briefings

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

24 May 2003 | Briefings

New Strategies, Old Loan Conditions

Conditionality

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Review

PRSP beyond the theory

IFI governance

Analysis

24 May 2003 | Briefings

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).