30 September 2008
Read the special Annual Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Update, co-produced with Afrodad, Bank Information Center, Choike, and Eurodad.
Special Annual Meetings edition of the the Bretton Woods Update
in this issue:
- Who should control the Bank?: Rich countries keep their thumbs on the scales
- The World Bank and water privatisation: public money down the drain by Nuria Molina and Peter Chowla
- IFI inspection mechanisms slam Bank faults in Uganda and Nigeria by Soren Ambrose
- World Bank and IMF get a dose of 'health' criticism
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The World Bank and IMF response to the food crisis: Will lessons be learned? by Nuria Molina and Bhumika Muchhala
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'No regrets': The World Bank and climate change: Bank proposes vast expansion of its role, ignoring criticism of past record
- 'Climate bank' or 'fossil fuel bank'?: World Bank Group increases lending to high-carbon projects by Srabani Roy
- Bank failing on environment: IEG finds lack of coherence
- Financial crisis: IMF chases its own tail
- Africa and the making of adjustment: How economists hijacked the Bank's agenda At Issue briefing by Howard Stein, University of Michigan Development economist and professor of African studies
- World Bank legitimising illegal Israeli occupation of West Bank Comment by Dawood Hammoudeh, Stop the Wall campaign
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Evaluation asks what value the IFC adds
- Voluntary transparency not enough in IFI extractive operations by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs
- Inside the institutions: IFC advisory services
- Bank plays blocking game in Accra aid negotiations by Lucy Hayes, Eurodad
- World Bank new poverty estimates: more confusing than ever by Nicolo Tomaselli
- The Bank of the South: the search for an alternative to IFIs by María José Romero and Carlos Alonso Bedoya
- The IMF, fiscal space and development programmes by Nancy Dubosse
and more....
View the complete special Annual Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Project Update (Brettom Woods Project website)
También disponible en Español (sitio Web Bretton Woods Project)