Annual UK report on the IMF for 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.
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).
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.
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).
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).
New BWP briefing finds the World Bank counted 70 per cent of energy-sector reforms in Development Policy Financing as having 'climate co-benefits' between 2018-2023 - but most of these promoted a private-led energy transition.
