Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Bretton Woods Project/World Development Movement
In the evidence session of 19 October (Autumn
Meetings of the World Bank and IMF) Bretton Woods Project agreed
to follow up the session with some data on the number of countries
in which there was a law which required parliamentary scrutiny
of World Bank/IMF policy. The response below is extracted from
the World Development Movement submission to the APPG Africa inquiry
on parliamentary strengthening.
WORLD BANK
LENDING AND
PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL
The following chart identifies borrowing countries
that require parliamentary approval or ratification of World Bank
lending instruments including loans, credits, IDA grants. The
chart includes countries where parliaments require approval of
each instrument and where parliament sets a ceiling within which
the executive branch concludes individual agreements.
SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICA
Benin, Republic of the Congo, Guinea Bissau,
Mauritania, South Africa, Burundi, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Niger, Tanzania,
Central African Republic, Gabon, Liberia, Rwanda, Togo, Chad,
The Gambia, Madagascar, Sao Tome and Principe, Uganda, Comoros,
Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Guinea, Mali, Seychelles, Zimbabwe.
EAST ASIA
AND THE
PACIFIC
Cambodia, Lao PDR, Palau, Timor Leste, Kiribati,
Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Vanuatu.
EASTERN EUROPE
AND CENTRAL
ASIA
Albania, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Ukraine,
Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Slovak Republic, Bulgaria,
Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan.
LATIN AMERICA
AND CARIBBEAN
Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil,
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Paraguay, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras,
Trinidad and Tobago.
MIDDLE EAST
AND NORTH
AFRICA
Algeria, Arab Republic of Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia,
Djibouti, Islamic Republic of Iran, Morocco, Republic of Yemen.
Source: (taken from World Bank documents)
http://www.bicusa.org/bicusa/issues/parliamentary_oversight/index.php.
October 2006
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