Eye on the IFIs

G20 Seeks to Streamline Private Investment in Infrastructure

By Carey L. Biron
Industrialised countries have agreed to collaborate on a new programme aimed at funnelling significant private-sector investment into global infrastructure projects, particularly in developing countries.

OPINION: Obstacles to Development Arising from the International System

By Manuel F. Montes
As the international community wades into the political discussions regarding the alternatives to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015 and the design of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as mandated by the Rio+20 conference, it is timely to consider the question of whether development is a matter mostly of individual effort on the part of nation-states or whether there are elements in the international economic system that could serve as significant obstacles to national development efforts.

OPINION: Global Governance – We Need to Bring Civil Society to the Table

By Nigel Martin
A poorly understood phenomenon is quietly but effectively shaping the daily lives of all citizens sharing this planet.

Global South Brings United Front to Green Climate Fund

By Carey L. Biron
The United Nations’ key mechanism for funding climate change-related mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is now ready to receive funds, following a series of agreements between rich and poor economies.

World Bank Pushes Private Sector for Major Investments in Infrastructure

By Carey L. Biron
The World Bank has initiated a major call to action for private sector investors around infrastructure projects in developing countries.

World Bank Reports Major Global Support for Carbon Pricing

By Carey L. Biron
Seventy-three countries and 22 lower-level governments offered formal support Monday for a global price on carbon dioxide emissions, including China, Russia and the European Union.

Environmental Funding Bypasses Indigenous Communities

By Amantha Perera
When she talks about the forests in her native Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, Maridiana Deren’s facial expression changes. The calm, almost shy person is transformed into an emotionally charged woman, her fists clench and she stares wide-eyed at whoever is listening to her.

World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute

By Carey L. Biron
A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and the government of El Salvador.

OPINION: Africans’ Land Rights at Risk as New Agricultural Trend Sweeps Continent

By Janah Ncube
Agriculture in Africa is in urgent need of investment. Nearly 550 million people there are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, while half of the total population on the continent live in rural areas.

World Bank Urged to Rethink Reforms to Business-Friendliness Report

By Carey L. Biron
Civil society groups from several continents are stepping up a campaign urging the World Bank to strengthen a series of changes currently being made to a major annual report on countries’ business-friendliness.

Cry for Argentina: Fiscal Mismanagement, Odious Debt or Pillage?

By Ellen Brown
Argentina has now taken the U.S. to The Hague for blocking the country’s 2005 settlement with the bulk of its creditors. The issue underscores the need for an international mechanism for nations to go bankrupt.

IFC Warned of Systemic Safeguards Failures in Honduras

By Carey L. Biron
For the second time this year, an internal auditor has criticised the World Bank’s private sector investment agency over dealings in Honduras, and is warning that similar problems are likely being experienced elsewhere.

What Do the World Bank and IMF Have to Do With the Ukraine Conflict?

By Frederic Mousseau
Mostly unreported as the Ukraine conflict captures headlines, international financing has played a significant role in the current conflict in Ukraine.

World Bank Board Declines to Revise Controversial Draft Policies

By Jim Lobe
A key committee of the World Bank’s governing board Wednesday spurned appeals to revise a  draft policy statement that, according to nearly 100 civil-society groups, risks rolling back several decades of reforms designed to protect indigenous populations, the poor and sensitive ecosystems.

Is Europe’s Breadbasket Up for Grabs?

By Kanya D'Almeida
Amidst an exodus of some 100,000 people from the conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, ongoing fighting in the urban strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk between Ukrainian soldiers and separatist rebels, and talk of more sanctions against Russia, it is hard to focus on the more subtle changes taking place in this eastern European nation.

BRICS – The End of Western Dominance of the Global Financial and Economic Order

By Shyam Saran
The sixth BRICS Summit which has just ended in Brazil marks the transition of a grouping based hitherto on shared concerns to one based on shared interests.

From Havana to Bali, Third World Gets the Trade Crumbs

By Chakravarthi Raghavan
The world of today is considerably different from the one at the end of the Second World War; there are no more any colonies, though there are still some 'dependent' territories.

As Winds of Change Blow, South America Builds Its House with BRICS

By Diana Cariboni
While this week's BRICS summit might have been off the radar of Western powers, the leaders of its five member countries launched a financial system to rival Bretton Woods institutions and held an unprecedented meeting with the governments of South America.

BRICS Forges Ahead With Two New Power Drivers – India and China

By Shastri Ramachandaran
The Sixth BRICS Summit which ended Wednesday in Fortaleza, Brazil, attracted more attention than any other such gathering in the alliance’s short history, and not just from its own members – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

BRICS Build New Architecture for Financial Democracy

By Mario Osava
The BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) launched the New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) during its sixth summit, institutionalising a new financial architecture for the emerging powers.

North’s Policies Affecting South’s Economies

By Yilmaz Akyüz
Since the onset of the crisis, the South Centre has argued that policy responses to the crisis by the European Union and the United States has suffered from serious shortcomings that would delay recovery and entail unnecessary losses of income and jobs, and also endanger future growth and stability. 
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