Multilateral Banks

WASHINGTON, DC -- The World Bank has invested over $20 billion in more than 200 projects that extract, transport, or burn fossil fuels since 1992, according to a first-of-its-kind global database launched today by the Institute for Policy Studies. Read More

In this time of grief, the MGJ is postponing the nonviolent demonstrations against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) our coalition was planning to host later this month. We choose this course of action regardless of the plans of the World Bank and IMF, and we respect other organizations that choose a different path. Read More

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank announced Monday that they had canceled this year's annual meetings, saying security agents need time to focus on issues raised by last week's terrorist attacks. Read More

We encourage all people to support nonviolence rather than retaliation as the appropriate response to these acts. Similarly, we urge our leaders in Washington to refrain from responding to this tragedy in a manner that visits more pain and suffering on an already sorrowed world. We also join in urging everyone to resist assigning responsibility to any particular group. Read More

Friends of the Earth today confirmed they would not participate in planned demonstrations during meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund later this month in light of recent terrorist attacks on The United States. Read More

Staff at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were resigned Wednesday that their upcoming annual meetings at the end of September would be cancelled, saying an announcement was expected within days Read More

Zirin has been organizing meetings with his Latino neighbors in Washington's Mount Pleasant community, talking to them about fighting the Goliaths of globalization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Capano has been spreading the word about the two institutions in Lynn, Mass., arranging a bus caravan to head to Washington with fellow union members eager to give the world's bankers an earful. Read More

September 29-30 the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will meet with each other in Washington DC... and meet tens of thousands of people from around the country and world opposing them in streets. Read More

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will hold their Joint Annual General Meetings in Washington, DC from September 28 to October 4, 2001. We call on people from all over the world to come to Washington to expose the illegitimacy of these institutions, to stand in solidarity with peoples in the global south, and to claim our right to determine our future and the course of the world economy. Read More

Argentina's president, having just secured $8 billion in emergency aid from the International Monetary Fund, announced plans for a referendum this year on cost-cutting moves aimed at fighting a recession. Read More