This year's spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF marked 60 years of their founding in 1944. Fasts in Pakistan and outside the World Bank in DC and a protest rally were some of the actions taken by global justice campaigners to press on issues including debt cancellation. The official meetings remain closed with proceedings undisclosed save for the final communique and press releases. The main issues around which discussions took place included macroeconomic and structural policy measures for economic recovery and growth, IMF surveillance, a debt sustainability framework for low-income countries and progress in providing debt relief under the enhanced HIPC Initiative, a review of progress towards the MDGs, development financing and the strengthening of the voice and participation of developing and transition countries in the work and decision making of the Bretton Woods institutions.
May 13, 2004
































