"works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, it monitors projects, policy reforms and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns". An essential resource for anyone wishing to understand the complex and myriad roles played by these policy actors in international development, and a great means of staying up to date with their institutional developments.