This book comprises the papers delivered at a meeting called by the World Council of Churches to discuss the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, held in September 2003 in Geneva. The aims were (1) to elaborate a common vision and strategies within the ecumenical movement to address the policies implemented by the IFIs; (2) to enable representatives from churches, agencies and social movements to search for consistent and effective ways to promote ecumenical responses to the policies of the WB and the IMF from the perspective of people in poverty and the marginalised; and (3) to discuss the issues to be raised with the WB and IMF at their second encounter with the WCCm schedules for October 2003. The meeting concluded that, despite an apparent change of heart, the policies of the WB and IMF have not deviated from the neo-liberal paradigm.