Civil society groups in Sri Lanka reject claims that the PRSP represents a comprehensive consultation process.
Conditionality
Conditionality
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Ghana faces IMF arm-twisting
After the IMF intensified retaliatory measures on Ghana for failing to comply with its requirements, the country now appears eager to please the Washington institution, probably at a high social cost.
Accountability
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IFIs withhold support from Equatorial Guinea
The IMF and the WB will withhold assistance from Equatorial Guinea until President Obiang accounts for the use of oil revenues.
Conditionality
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A human rights-based approach to PRSPs
A new report by the UN High Commission for Human Rights outlines guidelines for the implementation of a human rights-based approach to PRSPs.
Rights
Analysis
The World Bank, the IMF and “results”: increasing dominance in development policy lending
The World Bank and IMF are making an audacious grab to consolidate their roles as judge and jury of countries’ policies with a plan to conduct “regular reporting on the implementation of the policies and actions for achieving the MDGs and related development outcomes”.
Rights
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Trade and PRSP study
UK-based Christian Aid has commissioned the Overseas Development Institute to analyse the trade content of PRSPs.
Rights
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Bank in the middle of Cambodia, PNG forestry battles
Civil society groups in Cambodia and Papua New Guinea call on the Bank to exert its influence to curb violations of forestry codes.
Accountability
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UK government reply to Baku-Ceyhan memo
Letter from Rt Hon Baroness Symons, UK Minister of State International Trade and Investment in response to NGO memorandum on the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
Rights
News
Bank President reply on human rights
James Wolfensohn recently replied to an NGO letter of last summer requesting clarification of what the Bank planned to do to implement a human rights agenda. Wolfensohn said he recently met the newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and reiterated that "continued dialogue with human rights groups as well as with governments and other stakeholders is quite important to the Bank". Yet the letter did little to take forward this dialogue, making vague references to collaboration in Po
Conditionality
Analysis
Indispensable or unworkable? The IMF’s new approach to conditionality
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.
