International Organizations

International Organizations

International Financial Institutions

International Financial Institutions, or IFIs, are financial institutions established by more than one country and supposedly subject to international law. Most were established after World War II to maintain US and European economic supremacy through the management of the global financial system. However, most recognizable IFIs like the World Bank and IMF have drastic affects on nations' economies.

Most notably,IFI's Structural Adjustments Programs often have demolished the economic sustainability, social services, and sovereignty of client states while bolstering wealthy transnational corporations.

Keywords: IMF, World Bank, IDB, structural adjustment, hegemony, transnational
corporations

HOT Links:

• Official World Bank site
  
• The International Monetary Fund
  
• Essential Action: Campaign Against the IMF, World Bank and Structural adjustment
  
• Global Exchange: The World Bank and the IMF
  
• International NGO Campaign on Export Credit Agencies
  
• 50 Years is Enough
  
• The Bretton Woods Project
  
• Bank Information Center
  
• One World Trust
  
• Double Standards: Global Economics
  
• IFI WatchNet
  
• Jornadas Globales contras las IFI
  

Articles:

• Responsible Reform of the World Bank
  
• Making the World Safer for TNCS
  
• Economic Democracy; The Political Struggle for the 21st Century
  
• TNC dictatorship
  
• The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on the Poor
  
• Economics of Empire

Extra: audio link - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

International Governmental Organizations

International Governmental Organizations, or IGOs, are organizations of sovereign states established by treaty and subject to international law.

Yet the World Trade Organization, as one example, enforces a corporate agenda of unrepresentative officials that overlooks public accountability, favors property rights over human rights, and intervenes on behalf of the wealthiest nations.

Links: GATT, WTO, subsidies, most favored nation clause

HOT Links:

• GATT documents
  
• Official Website of the WTO
  
• The World Trade Institute
  
• Citizen's Guide to the WTO
  
• Z Mag's Primer on the WTO
  

Enlaces:

• Contra la OMC
  
• Organizacion Mundial del Comercio, Public Citizen
  
  

Articles

• Report of the WTO Accountability Review Committee
  
• Transparency, Participation and Legitimacy of the WTO
  
• WTO and Corporate America
  
• Citizens' Network on Essential Services: Globalization and International Institutions