A report by the World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department assessing implementation of the Comprehensive Development Framework includes some sobering recommendations.
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World Bank and IMF forcing privatisation: new report
Privatisation imposed by the World Bank and the IMF can be harmful to the most…
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IMF transparency still lagging on crucial issues
The Executive Board of the IMF met to discuss a revision of its procedures towards more transparency. While the IMF assimilates transparency efforts in the past few years to a ‘revolution’, critics point to major shortcomings hampering public scrutiny of IMF operations
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Circling the wagons: World Bank-IMF-WTO coherence
The heads of the World Bank and IMF spoke to the General Council - the highest-level decision-making body of the World Trade Organisation - on 13 May on the benefits of increasing coherence between their respective agencies. Civil society groups counter that the use of the word 'coherence' is a ruse designed to bring countries in line with a set of flawed economic policies.
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IMF paper on NEPAD
A new IMF working paper on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), calls the agreement "visionary".
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High-level UN meeting debates IFI governance
On 14 April a high-level meeting of the UN Economic and Social Affairs Council (ECOSOC) was held with the World Bank, IMF and the WTO on "increased coherence, coordination and cooperation for the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus".
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Debt relief money diverted in Nicaragua
A new report shows that debt relief in Nicaragua is only partly going to poverty reduction.
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Comments on ‘IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction’
Civil society commentary on the 'IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction'
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Weakest link or missing link?
In April, the IMF, the World Bank and the UK government organised a two-day workshop…
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World Bank on Special and Differential Treatment: Bad Economics, Worse Politics
As if the debate on Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) at the WTO wasn’t heated enough, the World Bank has decided to up the temperature a little with its own, highly partisan, contribution.
