Bretton Woods Project update

DFID snuggling up to the Bank? - Bretton Woods Project, 14 April 2009
In February the UK Department for International Development (DFID) belatedly released its latest annual report on its relationship with the World Bank. This continues a tradition which sees these reports appear at irregular intervals. A failure to stick to the definition of 'annual' reporting, is not made up for by rigorous critique of World Bank performance over this time either. The report lists the Bank's achievements and, as with previous annual reports there is a marked absence of the critiques heard by the Banks Independent Evaluation Group, the Parliament's International Development Committee or civil society for the period reviewed.