Joint Bretton Woods Project Update # 60
7 April 2008
Read the special Spring Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Update, co-produced with Afrodad, Bank Information Center, Choike, and Eurodad. The issue is also available in Spanish.
Special spring meetings edition of Bretton Woods Update #60
In this issue:
- World Bank climate funds: "a huge leap backwards"
- IMF governance renovations: fresh paint while foundations rot by Peter Chowla, Bretton Woods Project
- COMMENT: Camisea and the World Bank: A lost opportunity to make things better by César Gamboa, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
- At issue: Facilitating whose power? World Bank and IMF policy influence in Nigeria's energy sector by Lucy Baker, Bretton Woods Project
- A taxing agenda for the IMF by Alex Wilks and Marta Ruiz, Eurodad
- World Bank and procurement: Development tool or TNC sop?
- Bank both player and referee in road to Accra by Lucy Hayes, Eurodad
- Europe questions IFIs on conditionality: whose outcome? by Nuria Molina, Eurodad
- IFIs foot dragging on key debt issues by Nancy Dubosse, Afrodad
- World Bank strategic review kicked into long grass
- Leaky logic: dams in three countries questioned by Soren Ambrose, Bank Information Center and Lucy Baker, Bretton Woods Project
- Forest carbon facility: "more harm than good"?
- The Bank, Brazil and biofuels by María José Romero, Choike
- IFC challenges highlighted in the Middle East: Doing Business indicators come under fire by Amy Ekdawi, Bank Information Center
- Calls for Bank to uphold human rights
- Rural electrification: "financial viability" over welfare
- Inside the institutions: The World Bank and health
- Training for nothing?: IFIs asked to surrender reins over capacity building
- The IMF in Argentina: the search for relevance by María José Romero, Choike
...and more.
View the complete special Spring Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Project Update (Bretton Woods Project website)
View the complete special Spring Meetings edition of the Bretton Woods Project Update SPANISH VERSION (Bretton Woods Project website)