Bretton Woods Project highlightsCritical voices on the World Bank and IMFRethinking the IFIs' roles in conflict states- June 16, 2008 A new report from NGO International Alert draws lessons for the Bank's work from its experience in Burundi, Nepal and the DRC. The IMF is struggling to decide how to engage in conflict-affected states.http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=561823 IMF structural conditionality here to stay- June 16, 2008 Despite the criticism of Fund structural conditionality levelled in the IEO's January report, the management implementation plan of board-endorsed recommendations provides little confirmation that the IMF will solve the problem.http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=561809 The IMF's regressive secret- June 16, 2008 While tax policy and reform is an election battleground in developed countries, the IMF has increasingly turned it into a secret technocratic exercise in developing countries. This briefing examines the IMF's involvement in providing advice on tax policy, particularly its recommendations for the imposition of value added taxes (VATs).http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=561926 UN calls for human rights accountability- June 16, 2008 A UN report says the World Bank's investment arbitration facility is at odds with the protection of human rights.http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=561836 |