| 06 MAR 07 |
IMF and World Bank Policies Promote Violence Against Women - |
| 20 SEP 06 |
U.S.-Based Organizations: Full Debt Cancellation for Haiti Needed Immediately - Announced IMF/World Bank debt relief program will provide only limited relief, with painful conditions |
| 8 SEP 06 |
Civil Society Groups Condemn Civil Society Clampdown for Singapore World Bank/IMF meetings |
| 21 APR 06 |
IMF reform won't save dying institution |
| 21 APR 06 |
IMF/World Bank ordered to close |
| 15 DEC 05 |
IMF Threatens to Undermine G8 Debt Cancellation |
| 12 DEC 05 |
WTO: Doha Round will not aid development |
| 23 SEP 05 |
Protests Planned for DC as Hurricane Advances Toward Coast - Iraq War, Global Warming Induced Hurricanes and World Bank Linked |
| 4 AUG 05 |
G8 Debt Cancellation Agreement Faces Many Challenges from the IMF and World Bank - Critics Call for Unconditional, Immediate Cancellation |
| 2 AUG 05 |
G8 Debt Relief Could Lead to New Borrowing |
| 21 JUN 05 |
G8 Debt Cancellation Deal: An Incomplete, Yet Positive Step Forward |
| 31 MAY 05 |
CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS MARK WOLFOWITZ’S FIRST DAY AS WORLD BANK PRESIDENT WITH DENUNCIATION - Over 300 Organizations Sign Letter to Wolfowitz - Challenging Him to Address World Bank Policies Causing Poverty, Violence, & Injustice |
| 25 MAY 05 |
WORLD BANK OPPONENTS LAMBAST WOLFENSOHN AS HIS PRESIDENCY ENDS |
| 12 MAY 05 |
UPDATE ON DEBT ...following the IMF/WB Spring Meetings and the April 15/16 Meeting of G7 Finance Ministers |
| 14 APR 05 |
Critical Moment for 100% Debt Cancellation as G-7 Creditors Meet - Debt Activists Say Jubilee Goals Finally in Sight |
| 13 APR 05 |
100% DEBT CANCELLATION CANNOT WAIT! |
| 16 MAR 05 |
Wolfowitz to World Bank?! - Critics Amazed |
| 29 SEP 04 |
Global Justice Activists to Vigil Overnight Outside IMF/WB Annual Meetings |
| 20 JUL 04 |
CRITICS MARK WORLD BANK, IMF 60TH ANNIVERSARY WITH RALLIES WORLDWIDE - Focus on Imminent Controversial Decision on Oil & Mining Subsidies |
| 19 JUL 04 |
HAITI’S TAINTED ECONOMIC PLAN RISKS HUGE WASTE OF DONOR FUNDS - Human Rights Groups Charge Kofi Annan & Colin Powell Attempt to Legitimize Program “Designed by and for Foreigners” at July 19-20 Meeting at World Bank |
| 10 JUN 04 |
Outrage as G8 Ends with No Firm Debt Commitment |
| 9 JUN 04 |
50 Years, Jubilee Call on G8 to Cancel 100% of Debt |
| 21 APR 04 |
CRITICS FROM AROUND THE WORLD GRADE IMF AND WORLD BANK: 60 Years Old, and Another Bad Report Card |
| 4 MAY 04 |
50 Years Statement on IMF Appointment of Rodrigo Rato as Managing Director |
| 22 SEP 03 |
IMF/WB Opponents in Dubai Call for More of Spirit of Cancun |
| 30 MAY 03 |
50 Years Slams G8 Priorities |
| 11 APR 03 |
Protesters: U.S. Call on Iraq Debt Hypocritical; Warn Against Imposing "Free Trade" Agenda on Iraq |
| 4 MAR 03 |
WB Refuses to Discuss Bolivia Failure at Water Conference |
| 1 JULY 02 |
Report on G8 Summit (2002) & Global Justice Action Summit |
| 21 MAR 02 |
U.S. Campaigners
Tell U.N. Monterrey Conference:
"It's the Economic Policies, Stupid!" |
| 28 APR 01 |
IMF/World
Bank Opponents to Protest Sunday, April 19th in Washington |
| 25 JUL 00 |
House
Vote Opposes IMF & World Bank on "User Fees"
for Education and Health in Poorest Countries |
| 26 SEP 99 |
Demonstrators Denounce
IMF Policies -- Demonstrators converged on
the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund to denounce
policies that have impoverished much of the developing world.
|
| 17 MAR 99 |
Clinton's
Debt Relief Questioned -- Advocates of debt relief
for Africa are questioning US President Clinton's latest proposals
to reduce creditors' claims against some of the world's poorest
nations. |
| 14 FEB 99 |
World Bank's
Guilt on Indonesia Corruption -- The fall out over
the news that the World Bank failed to confront--and even
colluded in--gross corruption in the regime of ousted Indonesian
President Suharto has cast a pall over the institution's activities
in Asia and elsewhere in the developing world. |
| 15 DEC 98 |
Mozambique
Parliament Demands Total & Unconditional Debt Cancellation
-- "Total and unconditional cancellation of Mozambique's
foreign debt" was called for in a statement issued by
the Mozambican parliament at the end of the a special parliamentary
conference on foreign debt, 4-5 December 1998, in Maputo.
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| 6 DEC 98 |
IMF, others
spar on success of Asia policy recipies -- One year
almost to the day after the International Monetary Fund approved
a record-breaking rescue deal for South Korea, the fund has
been forced firmly on to the defensive. |
| 6 DEC 98 |
'High-Rhetoric'
Fight Between World Bank, IMF -- Economists from the
World Bank and its next-door neighbour, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), periodically exchange volleys over economic
crisis in Asia. Hostilities flared again this past week, impelling
Bank President James Wolfensohn to throw himself in the line
of fire. |
| 3 DEC 98 |
U.S. and
I.M.F. Made Asia Crisis Worse, World Bank Finds --
The decision by the International Monetary Fund and the United
States Treasury last year to push Asian nations to send their
interest rates soaring was a crucial blunder that worsened
the world financial crisis, the World Bank concluded Wednesday
in a report of how the trouble started. |
| 3 DEC 98 |
Lessons
of the Asia crisis -- The Dow may be over 9,000 and
US economic growth strong but most of the world remains mired
in an Asian slump. By Joseph Stiglitz, senior vice-president
and chief economist of the World Bank. |
| 2 DEC 98 |
Asian
Labour Market Woes Deepening -- ILO Calls for more
"Socially Oriented" Model of Development as Job
Losses Mount, including Establishment of Unemployment Insurance
|
| 26 OCT 98 |
World
Bank chief economist cites Asia, LTCM fund problems
-- Joseph Stiglitz charged on Monday that problems blamed
for the financial crisis in Asia were also rife at troubled
US-hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. |
| 4 OCT 98 |
Opponents
gather in Washington to protest IMF policies -- As
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank officials
gathered here, activists from around the world marched to
the IMF headquarters to protest the institutions' lending
policies.
To the chant of "Break the chains of debt, now!,"
about 200 protesters, some carrying papier-mache puppets
of IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus, World Bank President
James Wolfensohn and Uncle Sam, demanded that the IMF and
the World Bank cancel the debt that poor countries owe to
international institutions.
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| 16 APR 98 |
Press Release: Demonstration
at the IMF Headquarters to Protest Power Grab |
| 9 MAR 98 |
Press Release: Bailouts
for Bankers, Burdens for Women |
| 26 JAN 98 |
Press Release: Protest
At IMF |
| 15 JAN 98 |
Press Release: IMF
1998 Appropriation |
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