The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Cooperation on Poverty Reduction

This evalution is an assessment of the extent to which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (the Bretton Woods Institutions – BWIs) have followed up on the intentions to integrate a stronger povertyreduction focus in their activities. The assessment should serve as input into the policy discussion of the Nordic-Baltic caucuses in the boards of the two organizations. At the same time it is intended as information on the issues to a wider circle of interested persons inside and outside of government. The interest at this stage is in the processes of implementation and the cooperation between the organizations and in the client countries, not in the final results of their activities.