Featured articles and resources
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Surviving the pipeline? A critical analysis of the WBG’s policy approach to gender equality and macroeconomic reform through the lending process
While gender considerations are increasingly integrated into the World Bank diagnostics and strategies, they often sit alongside policy reforms that can have a negative impact on gender equality.
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Annual Meetings 2026 Preamble: BWIs return to Asia with their central role in 1997 financial crisis still casting long shadow, amid fears of future upheaval
IMF reviews risk resulting in further Fund-mandated austerity amid an already bleak global context, while Bank’s fixation with private capital deepens.
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The Bretton Woods Institutions in Asia: Exploitation, path dependencies and persistent contradictions
In this Special Issue, BWP partners analyse the legacy of BWIs policies and prescriptions in the Asian region in key areas including industrial policy, gender and accountability, among others.
Bretton Woods Observer
Autumn 2026
Ahead of the 2026 Annual Meetings, this issue of the Observer looks at key issues surrounding the international development landscape, including WBG push for private capital mobilisation and its change of approach towards industrial policy, the geopolitics of food, the IMF’s review of DSA, surveillance and conditionality, and much more.
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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:
