Activists, academics and civil society met in Accra 12-14 May for a conference entitled "Corporate Globalisation & the Scramble for Africa's Water: scrutinising the roles of Bretton Woods Institutions & donor community".
Social services
Accountability
News
“Parliamentary Front” on IFIs
Members of the Brazilian parliament have called on their colleagues to form a parliamentary front on IFIs and the national banking system.
Rights
News
Toxic waste dump or "world-class site"?
A new film points at contradictions in one of the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund projects in Durban, South Africa.
Social services
News
Arrest of IMF employee points to cover-up
IMF’s failure to clarify its role in hiring and assisting a technical adviser indicted on various counts of high-level corruption seriously undermines credibility on “good governance” agenda.
Rights
News
Public excluded from Bolivian Bechtel case
ICSID has ruled that it will not allow the public or media to participate in proceedings in which Bechtel is suing the people of Bolivia for $25 million.
Social services
News
UNDP book on Global Public Goods
New book addresses how to adjust the concept of public goods to today’s economic and political realities-includes discussion of governance of the IMF.
Rights
News
Water meetings everywhere and not a drop to drink
Debates over “high-risk” infrastructure, follow-up to the World Commission on Dams and private management have dominated discussion of the Bank’s new water strategy and global meetings on financing water infrastructure in Washington and Kyoto.
Knowledge
News
Bank “soul searching” on privatisation
Critics of privatisation are invited to speak at a meeting organised by the Latin American and Caribbean department.
Social services
News
Bengal opposition to Bank-backed water tax
Residents of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area in West Bengal will be the first to pay a new tax on water.
Social services
Commentary
The Fund or the people?
Mulima Kufekisa Akapelwa, Economic Justice Programme Coordinator for the Catholic Centre for Justice, Development and Peace, says that IMF-forced privatisation leads Zambians to ask who their government answers to.
