20 April 2009
Read this special Spring Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Update, a co-production of the Bretton Woods Project, with Afrodad, the Bank Information Center, Choike and Eurodad
Bretton Woods Update No.65
March/April 2009
- G20 "trillion" dollar magic trick
- World Bank and IMF launch disclosure review, by Bruce Jenkins
- REDD and the rights of Indigenous People, by Mrinalini Rai
- World Bank still supporting carbon-intensive future, by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs
- IMF emergency loans: Greater flexibility to overcome the crisis?, by Nuria Molina
- IFC's role in Yemen mining, by Nadia Daar
- IMF: Bigger but not much nicer
- Ghana's off-shore nightmare, by Bishop Akolgo
- DFID snuggling up to the Bank?
- Not much on offer for poor countries to counter the crisis
- World Bank's "environment" loans to Brazil: for what? by Patricia Bonilha
- Latin America: Return to the IMF or reinforce alternatives, by Maria Jose Romero
- US Congress votes against funding World Bank climate fund, by Ama Marston
- IFIs: Powerful bodeis, little accountability
- The IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs)
- World Bank under fire over support for private sector health care
and more...
View the complete special Spring Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Project Update (Bretton Woods Project website)