World Bank and IMF
Overviews and Factsheets
Agriculture & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
Background to issues relating to the World Bank and IMF
Bretton Woods Project
Debt & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
Education & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
Health & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
How Structural Adjustment Worsens Poverty
Essential Action
Mining & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
Privatization & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
Structural Adjustment Programs
WhirledBank.org
The Environment & World Bank/IMF
50 Years is Enough
The IMF, the World Bank and the HIV/AIDS Crisis
Essential Action
The Origins of the IMF and World Bank
Global Exchange
The World Bank and Corporations Fact Sheet
CorpWatch
The World Bank: Lending In Whose Interest? (PDF)
Center for Economic Justice
Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF
Global Exchange
What’s Wrong with the International Monetary Fund? Civil Society Concerns
Friends of the Earth
Why the World Bank Must Be Reformed and How We Can Do It
Global Exchange
Women & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
World Bank / IMF Fact Sheet
Global Exchange
World Bank Fact Sheet
50 Years is Enough, Bretton Woods Project, World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign
Other Key Articles and Documents
Demands of the IMF & World Bank
50 Years is Enough
Reforming the IMF
Oxfam International
Statement on the Occassion of the World Bank and IMF Meetings
OilWatch
The IMF and the Global Financial Architecture
Oxfam UK
Reports and Publications
Bretton Woods Update
Bi-monthly update on World Bank/IMF issues.
Bretton Woods Project
Proposals for World Bank/IMF Reform - A Civil Society Coalition Report (PDF)
States of Unrest II: Resistance to IMF and World Bank policies in poor countries
Documents the widespread and sustained resistance to IMF and World Bank policies by millions in the world's poorest countries.
World Development Movement
Struggling to be heard: Democratising the World Bank and the IMF
This report demonstrates how the World Bank and IMF fail to fulfill the standards of transparency and accountability that they call for in poor countries. These hugely powerful institutions are managed in a way that prevents poor countries from being fairly represented.
Christian Aid
Other Articles and Documents
April Demonstrations in Washington DC: Launch of A Campaign To Bankrupt the World Bank
SAPEM
Growth May Be Good for the Poor -- But are IMF and World Bank Policies Good for Growth?
A scientific rebuttal of the World Bank's David Dollar paper intended to quelch popular criticism.
Center for Economic and Policy Research
How IMF/World Bank Policies Encourage
Sweatshops and Lower Wages
World Bank Bonds Boycott
How the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Undermine Democracy and Erode Human Rights: Five Case Studies
Global Exchange
Outcome of the IMF/World Bank
September 1999 Annual Meetings
Implications for poverty reduction and debt relief
Oxfam
The Emperor Has No Growth: Declining Economic Growth Rates in the Era of Globalization
Not only are World Bank policies not helping the poor, but they aren't even creating economic growth.
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Unofficial Track Record of the World Bank
CEE Bankwatch Network
We Need More World and a Lot Less Bank
Mark Weisbrot, CEPR
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