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Bank and Fund work in trade policy covering trade-related conditionality, advisory services, and trade related capacity building. Questioning the Bank and Fund approach to trade liberalisation. Includes: Capacity building, integrated framework, trade-finance coherence, trade-related investment, trade conditionality and national development plans read read more background...

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World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2012

News|Bretton Woods Project|20 April 2012|url

Analysis of the 2012 World Bank and IMF spring meetings and related events, including the selection of new World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. read article...

IMF Consultation on Natural Resources Management and Taxation

Minutes|Bretton Woods Project|19 April 2012|url

Notes of meeting, Spring meetings 2012, Washington DC read article...

Memorandum by the Bretton Woods Project for the UK Treasury Committee Treasury Committee inquiry into global imbalances

Briefing|Bretton Woods Project|27 February 2012|url

It is widely accepted that global imbalances were a major contributing factor to the recent global financial crisis. In written evidence submitted to the UK Treasury Committee, we argue that there are four main underlying causes and three areas of major reform needed. read article...

World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2011

News|Bretton Woods Project|26 September 2011|url

Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2011. This page is being updated regularly. read article...

Community files complaint against IFC in Papua New Guinea

News|Bretton Woods Project|23 September 2011|update 77|url

The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's private sector arm, has accepted a complaint by local communities in Papua New Guinea referring to the IFC's role in advising the government on drawing up laws for special economic zones (SEZs). read article...

Big infrastructure, small participation World Bank and G20 push new plans

News|Bretton Woods Project|13 September 2011|update 77|url

The World Bank, in conjunction with the G20, is prioritising massive, cross-border infrastructure with private sector involvement, but has failed to involve any local communities. read article...

World Bank's Africa strategy remains rutted in comfort zone

Comment|Patrick Bond|14 June 2011|update 76|url

A critical analysis of the World Bank's new strategy for Africa read article...

The IFC's approach to international trade finance

Inside the inst|Bretton Woods Project|13 June 2011|update 76|url

Trade finance refers to financing arrangements that support international trade transactions. It is one of the central parts of a new ten-year strategy paper on international trade currently being developed by the World Bank for the period between 2011 and 2021. read article...

World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2011

News|Bretton Woods Project|15 April 2011|url

Analysis of governance reforms and other decisions made at the 2011 World Bank and IMF spring meetings read article...

Industrial policy: World Bank turning the corner?

News|Bretton Woods Project|6 April 2011|update 75|url

Over the past year, World Bank chief economist Justin Lin has tried to reopen debate at the Bank over whether developing country governments should adopt active industrial policies, previously taboo at the institution.  His thesis is that though the market remains the motor for economic development, "the government should play an active role in facilitating industrial upgrading and infrastructure improvements." London School of Economics academic, Robert Wade, in a January reply to Lin ,  argues that this "door opening" argument could signal a move away from the “Washington consensus”  that "economic growth is a function of the size and competitiveness of markets" and "government 'intervention' tends to be more costly than 'market failure'."  read article...

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