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08 May 2008:  - Conditionality
The Asian Development Bank’s strategy: to have one’s cake and eat it

08 May 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Sachs appeals for new agriculture aid fund

07 May 2008:  - Capital Flight - Financial architecture
Towards a stable and development friendly financial system

23 April 2008:  - Conditionality - Aid effectiveness - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debt
Eurodad Report Back: Bank/Fund and UN FfD meetings, Spring 2008

21 April 2008:  - Debt sustainability
Jubilee Act Passed by U.S. House

18 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Aid and review of the Monterrey Consensus

18 April 2008:  - Financial architecture
Currency transaction taxes and responsible financing at the UN

18 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
US launch of Eurodad aid effectiveness report

18 April 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Seminar on structural conditionality at the IMF

10 April 2008:  - Debt sustainability
Finance ministers debate Eurodad charter

10 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness - Bilateral debt - International Financial Institutions
Aid effectiveness and Financing for Development: EC pledges

08 April 2008:  - Financial architecture
A taxing agenda for the IMF

08 April 2008:  - Conditionality
Europe questions IFIs on conditionality: whose outcome?

03 April 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Donors putting brakes on aid effectiveness?

03 April 2008:  - International Financial Institutions - Aid effectiveness
Bank both player and referee in road to Accra

01 April 2008:  - Debt sustainability - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt
Tajikistan: on the brink of economic collapse

28 March 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Press release: Patchy progress by world's donors in reforming aid, warns new report

27 March 2008:  - Financial architecture - Debt sustainability
Joint NGO Letter to G20 on Responsible Lending

27 March 2008:  - Multilateral debt
Liberia reaches Decision Point under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative

14 March 2008:  - Multilateral debt
14 NGOs Write to UN Secretary General on Debt

10 March 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Breaking the IMF’s grip on financial and monetary policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

10 March 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
Europeans in Washington – waiting for U.S. proposals?

07 March 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
UK parliamentarians reproach DFID decision-making on World Bank funding increase

28 February 2008:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate Debt Campaign Bulletin: Issue 5

20 February 2008:  - Conditionality
The World Bank and IMF’s long shadow over Zambia’s copper mines

19 February 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
Aid effectiveness and Accra: latest update

15 February 2008:  - Aid effectiveness
European NGOs call on EU to deliver better aid

08 February 2008:  - Conditionality
Roundtable in Brussels to discuss outcome-based conditionality

08 February 2008:  - Conditionality
Donors and recipients meet in Cairo to talk about the future of conditionality

11 January 2008:  - Conditionality
Outcome-based conditionality: breaking the conditionality grip?

11 January 2008:  - Financial architecture
Financing for Development: a step closer to Doha

09 January 2008:  - International Financial Institutions
The IMF neglects its own conditionality policies

21 December 2007: 
Launch of China and Africa report in Brussels

19 December 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
What the World Bank lost in Berlin

18 December 2007:  - Financial architecture
Movements and social organisations from Latin America and the World have released an open letter to the creation of the Bank of the South

18 December 2007:  - Financial architecture
The Bank of the South is launched in Argentina

18 December 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Commentary on the draft World Bank paper: The concept of odious debts: some considerations

11 December 2007:  - Conditionality
Norwegian study examines Eurodad and World Bank conditionality analysis

30 November 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Will the World Bank's new IDA money make a difference?

29 November 2007:  - Conditionality
The World Bank’s quiet push for privatisation in Afghanistan

16 November 2007:  - Financial architecture
Financing for Development: from Monterrey to Doha

13 November 2007:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Debt sustainability
Debt Relief for Liberia Finally in Sight

13 November 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate debt bulletin: Issue 4

09 November 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Call to Norwegian and Ecuadorian governments for a task force on illegitimate debt

25 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
A Public Hearing on the World Bank was convened on 15 October in The Hague

23 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Financial architecture - Conditionality - Governance - Debt sustainability - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
Low-down on World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings 2007

23 October 2007:  - Bilateral debt - Illegitimate debt - Aid effectiveness
Ecuador: update on debt audit commission

22 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
IMF failing Liberia

16 October 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - International Financial Institutions
World Bank draft discussion paper on odious debt: a call for a full, independent peer review

12 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
World vs Bank: public hearing on the World Bank in The Hague

11 October 2007:  - Financial architecture - International Financial Institutions
One step closer to the Bank of the South

11 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Governance
Proposal for reform of World Bank governance

11 October 2007:  - Conditionality - Financial architecture - Governance
Proposals for change in World Bank conditionality

11 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Still waiting for reform as Dominique Strauss Kahn takes IMF helm

11 October 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Should the IMF get out of low-income countries?

05 October 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - International Financial Institutions
Week of Global Action against Debt and IFIs

05 October 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
French law proposal on vulture funds on the spotlight after Kensington’s case in Congo

05 October 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - Financial architecture
Responsible Lending and the G20

20 September 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Bangladesh resists IMF pressure

19 September 2007:  - Conditionality
Privatisation, a major WB and IMF priority in Cameroon

18 September 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Indian people to review World Bank role and impact

14 September 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - International Financial Institutions
UNCTAD and World Bank publish long-awaited papers on odious debt

10 September 2007:  - Governance
Is he the one for the IMF? Some questions about DSK

10 September 2007:  - Conditionality
Not much left for the World Bank to privatise in Zambia

07 September 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Brazil VS the Bank of the South

31 August 2007:  - Conditionality
Mozambique's hands still tied by World Bank conditions

27 August 2007:  - Conditionality
The World Bank forwards a 70 point agenda to Bangladesh

24 August 2007:  - Conditionality
Flawed World Bank conditionality consultations

23 August 2007:  - Conditionality
IDA Resource Allocation Index: And the winner is…

22 August 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
World Bank Tribunal in India coming soon

21 August 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate Debt Bulletin: Issue 3

15 August 2007:  - Governance
Contradictions abound in addressing “good governance”

15 August 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Scaling up of aid: can the IMF respond to growing criticism?

15 August 2007:  - Aid effectiveness
Donor conditionality continues to hamper aid effectiveness in Ghana

27 July 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Ecuador Launches Historic Debt Audit Commission

06 July 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Rodrigo Rato resigns – what next?

06 July 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
World Bank IDA begging for more money in Maputo

29 June 2007:  - Aid effectiveness - Poverty analysis and strategies - Governance
Aid, politics and power: new publications give food for thought

29 June 2007:  - Aid effectiveness
Making aid more acccountable and effective: a 10 point plan for real aid reform

18 June 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Spanish Parliament to hold WB and IMF representatives to account

11 June 2007:  - Aid effectiveness
Eurodad brief analysis of OECD Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration

07 June 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
Le G8 doit agir sur la dette du Haïti

07 June 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
G8 Climate Debt Grows as Impacts Rise

07 June 2007:  - Illegitimate debt - Multilateral debt
Debt Campaigners Call on G8 to Cancel Liberia’s Debts Now!

06 June 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate debt bulletin: issue 2

06 June 2007:  - Private debt
Swiss government extends freeze on bank accounts linked to "Baby Doc" Duvalier

06 June 2007:  - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt
2 Years After Gleneagles Promises on Debt, Vulture Funds Undermining G8 Debt Deal

01 June 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Open letter for the Bank of the South

01 June 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Italy withdraws from controversial World Bank privatisation fund

30 May 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Indonesian NGOs Demand Debt Cancellation from Germany

25 May 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
NGOs call on Swiss Government to repatriate stolen wealth to Haiti

24 May 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
The IMF, ineffective at heart

23 May 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Europeans urged to take strong line on process for new World Bank president.

16 May 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Wolfowitz digs in at World Bank despite investigation findings.

12 May 2007:  - Aid accounting
Inflated EU aid budgets criticised

11 May 2007:  - Aid accounting
Press release: Europe must come clean and deliver on aid promises to world’s poor

08 May 2007:  - Debt sustainability - Illegitimate debt
Ecuador in the spotlight as government seeks to renegotiate debt on its terms

26 April 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Conditionality - Financial architecture
Spring Meetings 2007: Life beyond the 'Wolfogate' crisis

26 April 2007:  - Aid accounting - Bilateral debt
Stop subsidizing exports with ODA

19 April 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
European civil society backs Wolfowitz resignation calls and urges comprehensive reform of World Bank governance.

14 April 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Europeans turning against Wolfowitz as World Bank scandal deepens

13 April 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Actor joins CSO challenge to World Bank

13 April 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Eurodad press release calls for Wolfowitz resignation, governance reforms

03 April 2007:  - Aid accounting
EU States fail to live up to their promises on aid to world's poor

30 March 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Parliamentarians’ declaration for responsible sovereign lending

30 March 2007:  - Multilateral debt
IDB now in on MDRI but once again the devil is in the detail

22 March 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
The IMF still confused about its role in Sub-Saharan Africa

21 March 2007:  - Illegitimate debt
Illegitimate Debt Campaign Bulletin: Issue 1

16 March 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Replenishing IDA: half full or half empty?

01 March 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Conditionality - Financial architecture
Joint European statement on the World Bank

01 March 2007:  - International Financial Institutions - Conditionality
European NGOs launch joint campaign on the World Bank

16 February 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Did Schuman get lost in the Bretton Woods?

15 February 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
The Fox runs to the Wolf's cry

13 February 2007:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt
Campaigners in Africa and Europe Call for Immediate Debt Cancellation for Liberia

10 January 2007:  - International Financial Institutions
Breaking free from the IMF: the fall of the “creditor’s cartel”?

21 December 2006:  - International Financial Institutions - Poverty analysis and strategies
Nicaragua negotiates whilst Ghana exits from IMF’s PRGF

20 December 2006:  - Multilateral debt - Debt sustainability
Haiti enters HIPC but will it do the Trick?

14 December 2006:  - Financial architecture - Debt sustainability
New and old loans in Africa - what role for Parliamentarians?

07 December 2006:  - Aid accounting - Bilateral debt
Global civil society denounces aid definitions widening

02 December 2006:  - Aid effectiveness
Negotiating success: Are donors improving their aid quality?

30 November 2006:  - Conditionality - International Financial Institutions
World Bank and IMF still pushing conditions

23 November 2006:  - Governance - International Financial Institutions
Highlights from the International Anti-Corruption Conference

23 November 2006:  - Multilateral debt
G8 Debt Deal Expands to Include Inter-American Development Bank

23 November 2006:  - Conditionality - International Financial Institutions
Civil Society call for end to economic policy conditionality

20 November 2006:  - Conditionality - International Financial Institutions
World Bank conditionality update

16 November 2006:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt
What Will the EU Do on Liberia?

13 November 2006:  - Aid effectiveness
Civil Society condemns Donor Double Standards

03 October 2006:  - Illegitimate debt
Norway makes ground-breaking decision to cancel illegitimate debt

21 September 2006:  - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt
World Bank IMF Annual Meetings: what's in the communiqués?

21 September 2006:  - Multilateral debt
Malawi Reaches Completion Point

21 September 2006:  - Multilateral debt - Debt sustainability
Liberia needs urgent debt cancellation and aid, say Campaigners

21 September 2006:  - International Financial Institutions
Batam and Singapore: contested governance at Bank-Fund meetings

20 September 2006:  - Multilateral debt - International Financial Institutions
Eurodad urges ministers to take responsibility and agree debt deal

19 September 2006:  - Governance - International Financial Institutions
World Bank on a short rein governance and anti-corruption

15 September 2006:  - International Financial Institutions
PRESS RELEASE: Boycott of WB/IMF Annual Meetings

15 September 2006:  - International Financial Institutions
Boycott of IMF-WB Official Program in Singapore

08 September 2006:  - International Financial Institutions
Joint press statement on World Bank IMF meetings clampdown

29 August 2006:  - Conditionality
The World Bank Development Policy Lending retrospective: looking backwards or going forward?

16 August 2006:  - Governance - Illegitimate debt
NGO Letters to World Bank on Governance and Anti-Corruption Framework

26 July 2006:  - International Financial Institutions
International People's Forum vs the World Bank and the IMF

17 July 2006:  - Conditionality - International Financial Institutions
IMF conditionality in Nicaragua: interview with Adolfo Acevedo

16 July 2006:  - Multilateral debt - International Financial Institutions
Uruguay made early debt payment of nearly half of its debt to the IMF

06 July 2006:  - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt - Debt sustainability
Declaration: Drop the Debt of the Transition: CEE and CIS Civil Society Declaration on Debt Cancellation

04 July 2006:  - Bilateral debt
Press statement: Stop Nigeria's $2.15 billion debt payment

06 June 2006:  - Bilateral debt
The Paris Club: a red card for foul and unfair play

01 June 2006:  - Illegitimate debt - Governance
Wolfowitz needs to look at corruption of yesterday, not just today and follow the positive example of Norway

22 May 2006:  - Aid effectiveness - Poverty analysis and strategies
Open NGO letter on budget support aid

16 May 2006:  - Illegitimate debt
Letter to Norwegian government on Illegitimate Debt

05 May 2006:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial Institutions
Tanzania after the PRGF

04 May 2006:  - Multilateral debt
Zambia after HIPC surgery and the completion point

27 April 2006:  - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt - Governance - Conditionality
Low- Down on World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings 2006

15 April 2006:  - Poverty analysis and strategies
Macroeconomic policy options in Africa: Linking MDGs and PRSPs

04 April 2006:  - Multilateral debt
World Bank Approves Final Plans for Debt Cancellation Deal

04 April 2006:  - Multilateral debt
IDB Debt Cancellation: Where are we now?

02 April 2006:  - Financial architecture - Debt sustainability
Aid and debt management and role of parliamentarians

23 March 2006:  - International Financial Institutions - Conditionality - Debt sustainability
European Parliament amends report on IMF strategic review

01 March 2006:  - Illegitimate debt - Private debt
Paraguay Repudiates Its Debt

01 March 2006:  - Aid effectiveness
EU aid effectiveness package

23 February 2006:  - Financial architecture - Debt sustainability
Financing Poverty Reduction Not Indebtedness – African Communique on Loan Negotations

08 February 2006:  - Poverty analysis and strategies - International Financial Institutions
Evidence-based policy making and PSIA update

16 January 2006:  - Debt sustainability
Breaking the chains of debt: Bolivia's public debt

10 January 2006:  - Multilateral debt
IMF concedes on 19 out of 20 but still has a long way to go on debt cancellation

10 January 2006:  - Multilateral debt - Illegitimate debt
Brazil and Argentina to pay-out US$25bn to IMF

20 December 2005:  - Illegitimate debt
Switzerland-Nigeria: stolen loot

20 December 2005:  - Bilateral debt - Illegitimate debt
Nigeria's debt deal close-up

20 December 2005:  - Bilateral debt
International CSO statement on Nigerias debt

20 December 2005:  - Multilateral debt - Bilateral debt
Canceling developing countries' debt: options and possibilities

14 December 2005:  - Multilateral debt - Conditionality
IMF Reveals Plans for G8 Debt Deal

20 November 2005:  - Poverty analysis and strategies
Eurodad Electronic Conference on PSIA

17 November 2005:  - Poverty analysis and strategies
The Cost of Meeting the MDGs in Zambia

23 October 2005:  - Aid effectiveness
State of Play on Aid Effectiveness

20 October 2005:  - Aid effectiveness
letter on monitoring

27 September 2005:  - International Financial Institutions - Multilateral debt - Aid effectiveness - Conditionality - Poverty analysis and strategies
Low-Down on the IMF and WB Annual Meetings

26 September 2005:  - Multilateral debt
Not quite time to count the chickens

19 September 2005:  - Aid accounting - Bilateral debt
NGOs condemn dubious aid statistics linked to export credit debt deals

26 August 2005:  - Conditionality
What future for World Bank Conditionality?

15 July 2005:  - Multilateral debt
G8 Gleneagles summit 2005

04 July 2005:  - Conditionality
World Bank conditions on the rise

28 June 2005:  - Aid accounting - Illegitimate debt
Iraqi debt cancellation inflates Europe's aid figures

26 June 2005:  - Multilateral debt
Salesmanship and substance: the G8 on debt

21 June 2005:  - Aid effectiveness
More progressive aid effectiveness targets demanded

16 June 2005:  - Poverty analysis and strategies
World Bank PSIA list 2006

18 March 2005:  - International Financial Institutions
Public statement to European heads of state on the World Bank president nomination



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