Category - IMF

IMF risks condoning corruption with new loan to Angola

agency reporter — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:49:46 +0100

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should not go ahead with plans for a multi-million dollar loan to Angola, whose oil-rich government is highly corrupt, without stringent conditions says Global Witness.

Radical IMF reform 'critical' to Brown's poverty pledges

agency reporter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:25:13 +0100

Jubilee Debt Campaign called on Finance Ministers meeting in Washington this weekend to take radical steps to clean up global finance, in the first serious test of the G20's plan to revive the global economy.

IMF must abandon discredited policies says aid agency

agency reporter — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:21:59 +0100

Topping the agenda when World Bank and International Monetary Fund meet in Washington this weekend will be global financial stability.

IMF and World Bank called upon to deliver on G20 promises

agency reporter — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:01:10 +0100

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank should use their spring meetings to deliver the G20’s promise to protect the world’s poorest countries from economic devastation, development agency Oxfam says.

Latin American and Caribbean faiths meet banks to talk anti-poverty action

agency reporter — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:51:08 +0000

Interfaith leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean have met with officials from three major global multilateral financial bodies to discuss ways of advancing the struggle for the MDGs and against poverty and inequality.

G7 rich countries urged to keep promises to poor nations

staff writers — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

UK chancellor Gordon Brown and other finance ministers at the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations meeting which opened tyesterday in Essen, Germany, must fulfill their two-year-old promise to stop international financial institutions imposing damaging economic policies on developing countries, according to Christian Aid and other church-related development NGOs.

New film highlights global injustice impacting Africa

staff writers — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:53:54 +0000

International development agency Christian Aid and leading British Muslim magazine, Q-News, have teamed up to host a special screening of Bamako, a powerful film about the devastating effects of World Bank and IMF policies imposed on African countries, at the Curzon Cinema, Mayfair, London on 12 February 2007.

Nicaraguan leader seeks church support over IMF on anti-poverty action

staff writers — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega has announced that he will this week call on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to relax its stringent policy towards Nicaragua in order to be able to tackle endemic poverty and hunger.