Greece and the IMF: Who exactly is being saved?
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Tue, 27/07/2010 - 00:00Monthly Review, 27 July.
Conditionality in World Bank crisis-lending to Ghana
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Tue, 27/07/2010 - 00:00Monthly Review, 27 July.
Emerging markets consider capital controls to regulate speculative capital flows
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Mon, 05/07/2010 - 00:00VoxEU, 5 July.
Let's take no orders to slash and burn from this G20 club | Naomi Klein
posted by Bretton Woods Project news feed on finance | Wed, 30/06/2010 - 13:06An institution dreamed up by finance ministers is trying to hand over the bill for the banking crisis to society's poorest
UN pleads for overhaul of existing multilateral machinery, end to US dollar role
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Wed, 30/06/2010 - 00:00InDepthNews, 30 June.
Yuan can become alternative reserve currency to US dollar-ADB report
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Thu, 24/06/2010 - 00:00Reuters, 24 June.
World Bank and IMF: financial cops of western hegemony
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Fri, 11/06/2010 - 00:00One of the key aspects of the current global order is the unjust economic policies and institutions that have been imposed by the victors of the Second World War. The principal vehicles by which the US and its allies exercise their economic hegemony are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Even though the World Bank and IMF are often discussed in terms of their failed methods and programs, the main props of the thought behind them are flawed. The fact that their flawed princ...
G-20 Is Nearing Accord on Capital Rules
posted by Bretton Woods Project news feed on finance | Mon, 07/06/2010 - 16:57The world's leading economic powers edged toward agreement on new rules to ensure that major banks keep enough money in reserve to insulate them against future crises.
A plan to live with 'imbalances'
posted by Newswire on international finance - Bretton Woods Project | Fri, 04/06/2010 - 00:00Financial Times, 4 June.
Q+A - G20 efforts to agree a bank tax | Reuters
posted by Bretton Woods Project news feed on finance | Thu, 03/06/2010 - 13:36Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 group of countries meet in Busan, Korea on June 4-5 to discuss progress in implementing their pledges to make the world's financial system safer.