Featured articles and resources
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The Bretton Woods twins: How do the World Bank and IMF work together?
This Inside the Institutions focuses on BWI’s cooperation, their policy approaches and how their influence on development and macroeconomic policy have increasingly converged, alongside ongoing debates about their harmful impact on development and human rights outcomes.
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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
Summer 2026
This issue features the BWIs response to conflict and debt, the extension of the World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan and the merger of its accountability mechanism, the emergence of the Borrowers’ Platform, and debates over critical minerals, among other issues.
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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:
