Featured articles and resources
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Critical minerals and the new development dilemma: What the World Bank’s new strategy must get right
World Bank’s new mining strategy requires a new approach informed by critical review of what has worked.
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IFC Sustainability Framework Review
This Inside the Institutions critically analyses the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) review of its Sustainability Framework, amidst intensifying scrutiny of its harmful investments.
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Brace for impact: Social and gender inequality in IMF surveillance
New BWP briefing on IMF Surveillance finds IMF’s core policy direction has remained consistent over a 14-year period and is identical to that previously described as “structural adjustment”.
Bretton Woods Observer
Winter 2025
This issue spotlights how today’s architecture continues to fail developing countries despite renewed momentum for reform at the UN’s FfD4 conference. It explores mounting calls for fairer IMF and World Bank policies, from overhauling debt sustainability assessments to binding private creditors and rebalancing World Bank shareholding to give African countries a stronger voice.
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Our advocacy programmes
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:
