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IMF and World Bank Reform

SJC's educational programs on World Bank and IMF reform focus on the decision making precesses within these institutions that have been widely recognized as undemocratic and lacking in important measures to ensure accountability. The SJC has provided analysis and educational material on aspects of monitoring and evaluation, identifying and eliminating unproductive conditionalities, and strengthening the "voice" of poor countries in the World Bank and IMF.

The Impact of the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act’s human rights criteria on Canada’s contributions to the World Bank Input to consultation by the Department of Finance, SJC calls for greater accounting of human rights protection in World Bank programs. (January 2009)

Letter from the SJC to the managing director of the IMF (September 2008)

Response from the managing director of the IMF to the SJC [Acrobat Reader format, September 2008]

Issues of concern as the World Bank and IMF prepare for their Annual Meetings in Washington October 20-22 2007, and recommendations provided to the Government of Canada:

	IMF and World Bank Reform – lack of movement on voice and representation, and on the selection process for leadership at the World Bank and IMF
	The Independent Evaluation Office report on the IMF in Africa - “business as usual”
	Liberia debt to the World Bank and IMF - the need for cancellation
	Declining and less-than-effective MDB spending on HIV/AIDS
	World Bank weak on labour standards and worker protection
	Concern that policy choices on women’s health and climate change are guided by US government ideology

Guyana: Experience of Economic Reform under World Bank and IMF Direction [Acrobat Reader format, Nov 9 2005]

A Different Take on Enhancing Voice at the International Financial Institutions [Acrobat Reader format, September 2004]

Empowerment and the World Bank
Dialogue with the IMF 2002-2003

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