Featured articles and resources
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Spring Meetings 2026 Preamble: ‘Rupture in world order’ further challenges IMF and World Bank’s legitimacy
Spring Meetings take place amid increasing tensions among key Global North shareholders, as global instability deepens BWIs legitimacy crisis.
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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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Civil society engagement under the IMF’s CSO guidelines
This Inside the Institutions examines the IMF’s review of its civil society engagement guidelines in the context of increasing programme scrutiny.
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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 highlights how the World Bank’s role in US-led Board of Peace sparks concerns over politicisation, weakened UN authority, and accountability gaps, as well as debates around IMF fiscal policy shortcomings, rising debt and inequality, and shifting development models, highlighting growing 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:
