[stop-imf] new Bretton Woods update

[Robert Weissman]

The new Bretton Woods Update is now out and available at:
www.brettonwoodsproject.org/update. The list of items in this issue is
included below.

BRETTON WOODS UPDATE
A digest of information and action on the World Bank and IMF

Number 22, April/May 2001

Published by BRETTON WOODS PROJECT
supporting a worldwide network on World Bank and IMF reform

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1. Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra
2. IDA negotiations start
3. Concern on African pipeline watchdog
4. Conditionality reduced but still "indispensable"
5. Carrots, sticks and ethnic conflict
6. G8 strategy attacked as too pro-Bank
7. IFC plans governance clauses for loans: Woicke
8. The future of public services
9. PRSP case studies report
10. Bank/Fund PRSP latest
11. Nicaraguan mayors call for consultation
12. Joke" Malawian PRSP deadline extended
13. Some progress on Mozambique cashew, sugar liberalisation
14. Weakening resettlement policy
15. New Bank report on gender policies
16. World Bank attacked on dams report
17. Bank civil society newsletter
18. Social legacy of Indondsia's crisis
19. Fighting neo-liberalism in the Asia-Pacific
20. IMF muscles in on "Asian Fund"
21. IFC prawn farm loan sparks conflict
22. Laos dam controversy
23. Peruvian mine blockaded
24. Journalists press for transparency
25. Participation: the new tyranny?
26. Making waves
27. Conference demands Bank fossil fuels ban
28. Knowledge Bank takes on trade, but credibility questioned
29. Africans boycott net Gateway
30. Southern African Bank watch
31. Bank research: newsletter and website
32. Trade discussions at new European seminar launch
33. Protests planned for Barcelona conference
34. Oh no, O'Neill
35. Ecuador adjustment protesters strike deal
36. Social sectors bear brunt of Argentine austerity programme
37. Bank Vice President enlisted in Turkey crisis
38. Child poverty, development targets debated
39. Spring meetings agendas
40. NGO events
41. Overstretched and Underloved: new briefing on Bank strategy
42. Bankwatch group seeks policy director