Featured articles and resources
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Spring Meetings 2026 Wrap-up: America First exacerbates global instability as war on Iran leads to latest economic shock
The Spring Meetings offered a chilling response to the persisting strains of global instability and multilateralism in crisis.
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Hard-wiring hunger: Bretton Woods Institutions and the financialisation of food systems
BWP’s new report examines how IMF and World Bank policies have contributed to reshaping global food systems to prioritise financial speculation over food security.
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Fuelling inequality: The gendered impacts of World Bank and IMF fuel subsidy removal
New BWP’s research provides evidence of the negative gendered impacts of fuel subsidy removal policies in Egypt, Kenya and Bangladesh.
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Grading the World Bank Group on climate justice principles: A scorecard on the Bank’s 2025 climate finance
BWP’s scorecard gives World Bank’s a C- on its reported climate finance for FY 2025.
Bretton Woods Observer
Spring 2026
This issue analyses how the World Bank’s role in US-led Board of Peace sparks concerns over politicisation, weakened UN authority, and accountability gaps. It also highlights debates around IMF fiscal policy shortcomings, rising debt and inequality, and shifting development models, increasing pressure to reform the global financial architecture.
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The Bretton Woods Project adjusts to changes in the global geopolitical context and the roles played the World Bank and the IMF by actively adapting the approaches it uses to achieve the changes it seeks. Currently, the Project works focuses on four advocacy areas:
