Analysis of the G24 communiqué released on 5 April from the 2021 virtual World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.
Thousands of Indian farmers protest damaging World Bank and IMF-supported reforms to agriculture laws.
World Bank commits to invest additional $5 billion in the Great Green Wall over the next five years, despite shortcomings in its existing investments in the initiative highlighted by IEG.
Latin American Indigenous Peoples call on the World Bank to safeguard their rights and ensure its programmes are based on their own proposals.
Bill withdrawn after allegations of misconduct, as Nigerian civil society mobilises against water privatisation.
Bank support facilitated $1 billion in private investment in LNG on the island, despite the green credentials of natural gas being widely debunked.
New methodology fails to meet long-standing civil society calls to put needs of people before debt service.
IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office suggests that Fund guidelines are too restrictive and recommends a refresh in light of recent experience and research.
Civil society policy forum session on 31 March
Summary: IFIs have been promoting the role of the private sector in job creation and…
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 26 March
Notes from Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Event on the Cascade approach and the World Bank's Covid-19 recovery programming.
Summary of Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum People's Vaccine March 26 event.
Notes from the Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum session on 23 March.
Government states that $346 million loan jeopardised “the country’s sovereignty and economic interests.”
Civil society letter condemns World Bank statements as ‘weak’.
Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.
