1. Will the World Bank Stop Investing in Campesino Assassinations?
(Matching tags: world bank, Honduras, Facusse)

On February 27, the office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched an audit of the lending arm’s $30 million investment in Tegucigalpa-based ...

2. The World Bank and IMF’s Repeatedly Over-Optimistic Economic Growth Projections for Haiti
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, GDP)

CEPR’s Arthur Phillips and Stephan Lefebvre have written a nice post analyzing the World Bank and IMF’s repeatedly over-optimistic economic growth projections for Haiti over at our sister-blog, “The Americas ...

3. World Bank and IMF Forecasts Follow Predictable Pattern for Haiti, Venezuela
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, venezuela, Haiti)

The World Bank has joined the “doom and gloom” chorus on Venezuela’s economy. And in Haiti, the Washington-based institution again appears overly optimistic. On Tuesday, January 15, the World Bank released ...

4. CEPR in the News April 2012
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, cholera, economy, housing, Haiti, Social Security, stimulus, austerity, low-wage workers, Latvia)

... still much better educated today than they were in 1979. And CEPR Senior Economist Eileen Appelbaum wrote about the impact of low-wage jobs on the economic recovery in this piece for U.S. News and World ...

5. Haiti Reconstruction Fund: Building Back …When?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, world bank, iadb, aid coordination, ihrc, haiti reconstruction fund)

... are transferred to a “partner entity”; either the UN, World Bank or Inter-American Development Bank, which then carries out the project. The financial report shows that while the Fund has transferred a ...

6. The Process is Forever Changed, for the Better
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In the wake of Jeffrey Sachs’ unprecedented open candidacy for World Bank president comes important news that developing country economists may also join the race: former minister of finance for Colombia ...

7. Sachs' Candidacy Sets Stage for Public Debate Over World Bank Reform
(Matching tags: imf, world bank)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot last week issued a statement supporting  Jeffrey Sachs’ reform candidacy for the World Bank. "Reform" is the operative word here. It is the nature ...

8. Slow Pace of Reconstruction Leads to Lower Economic Growth
(Matching tags: aid distribution, imf, world bank, economy, GDP)

The level of grant support is only marginally higher than in 2009, before the earthquake, while overall spending levels are actually below 2009 levels. Despite the billions pledged in aid, budget support ...

9. World Bank Report Finds Allocation of Emergency Food Aid Not Effective in Targeting Most Vulnerable
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, food crisis, food aid, world bank, rice)

...  A recent World Bank Policy Research Working Paper from Damien Échevin notes that three weeks after the earthquake “31% of the households were experiencing limited or severe food insecurity (22% and 9% ...

10. IHRC Mandate Ends – 18 Months With Little to Show
(Matching tags: aid distribution, reconstruction, world bank, bill clinton, haitian government, aid coordination, ihrc, haiti reconstruction fund, spending)

As the AP reported last week, the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission’s (IHRC) mandate expired on Friday, October 21. The mandate had called for a transition to a Haitian government development authority ...