A flurry of reviews of the BWIs work in financial sector reform kicked off in March with the Fund's board review of the joint Bank-Fund financial sector assessment programme.
Finance
Finance
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Ecuador stands ground
Ecuador's new president has claimed he will not back down on oil revenues
Finance
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Evaluation of IMF and capital account liberalisation
A report by the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office released in May concludes that the Fund's "cheerleading" on capital account liberalisation in the early 90s was unbalanced and inconsistent.
Conditionality
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Fund legitimacy under question
A summary of IMF gold sale deadlock. A summary of the new Turkish loan agreement and Krueger's comments on a flexible labour market. Re-emergence of the idea of an Asian Monetary Fund
Accountability
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G8 cancellation of World Bank, IMF debt: "step forward"
Finance ministers of the world's richest countries agreed to write off $40 to $55 billion of debts owed to the World Bank, IMF and African Development Bank. Statements on aid effectiveness and trade in the final communiqu
Accountability
Background
UK NGO meeting with executive director Tom Scholar: uncorrected highlights 4 April 2005
Minutes of Spring meeting with Tom Scholar and UK NGOs in London
Social services
Background
IMF in low-income countries
Chaired by Mark Plant, head of PDR The spring meetings were quiet on this issue…
Finance
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World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2005 report
Reports of official and civil society events in Washington around the spring meetings 2005.
Finance
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IDA XIV replenishment: substantial increase in new resources but commitments still inadequate
Summary of outcome of IDA X1V meeting in Washington, February 2005
Social services
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World Bank tsunami response
World Bank's response to the tsunami in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives
