This event on the IMF's role during the global financial crisis featured Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR, James Roaf of the IMF, Public Citizen's new president, Robert Weissman, Asia Russell, the director of Health GAP, and Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.

Jan Toporowski, Research on Money and Finance, Department of Economy, SOAS, Speaking at the 2nd Workshop: “Developing Joint UK Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis” organised by the Bretton Woods Project and School of Oriental and African Studies, Research on Money and Finance, 15th December, 2008.

With so much wealth in the world,
why is there still poverty?

Antonia Juhasc launches a book on the history of the World Bank and IMF at Cody's bookshop in San Francisco.

Who can save the Bengal tiger..? Forest dwellers, or the city people who want them out of the park? What price Sustainable Development?

The world's finance ministers are set to meet in Washington D.C. on Friday to determine how to act on some of the economic pledges made by G20 leaders several weeks ago in London.

Philip Arestis, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy, University of Cambridge Speaking at the Workshop: 'Developing Joint UK Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis' organised by the Bretton Woods project and School of Oriental and African Studies, Research on Money and Finance, Dec 15th, 2008

This panel discussion, which featured Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at Center for Economic and Policy Research; Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; and Robert Weismann, Director of Essential Action, looked at the economic issues involved in current IMF l