Archived - Report on Operations Under the Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act 2004

Prepared by:
International Trade and Finance Branch
March 2005

- All Years -

PDF Version - [760 KB]

Table of Contents

Introduction

International Monetary Fund

• Overview
• Benefits of Membership
• Canada's Priorities at the IMF
• Economic and Financial Developments
   in Emerging Markets
• Efforts to Promote International Financial Stability:  Strengthening Surveillance and Crisis Prevention
• Enhancing Crisis Resolution
• Improving IMF Lending
• Safeguarding the IMF's Cooperative Nature
• Strengthening Support for Low-Income Countries
• Lending Developments in 2004
• Managing Canada's Interests at the IMF
• Canadian Executive Director's Office at the IMF
• Canada's Financial Participation
• Challenges Ahead

World Bank

• Benefits of Membership to Canada
• Overview of Operations in 2004
• Strengthening the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Focus
• The IDA14 Replenishment-Working Together to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
• Canada's Priorities at the World Bank
• The World Bank's Business Plan and Administrative Budget
• FY 2004 IBRD Financial Results
• Managing Canada's Interests at the World Bank
• International Finance Corporation
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
• Future Challenges

Joint Issues

• Overview
• Enhancing the Voice and Participation of Developing Countries in the Bretton Woods Institutions
• Multilateral Debt
• Long-Term Debt Sustainability in Low-Income Countries

Annexes

1. Active IMF Lending Arrangements-As of December 31, 2004

2. IBRD Loans and IDA Credits-Fiscal Year 2004
 (July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004)

3. IBRD Loans and IDA Credits to Developing Countries

4. Disbursements by IBRD and IDA Borrowers:
 Goods and Services From Canada-To June 30, 2004

5. IBRD Loans and IDA Cumulative Lending by Country-
 As of June 30, 2004

6. Projects Approved for IBRD and IDA Assistance in
 Fiscal Year 2004, by Country (July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004)

7. 2004 Communiqués of the International Monetary
 and Financial Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF

8. 2004 Communiqués of the Development Committee
 of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and IMF