Follow BWP’s World Bank and IMF 2018 Spring Meetings Dispatch

World Bank and IMF governors will meet during the 2018 Spring Meetings in Washington DC from 20-22 April. The Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF) will take place from 17-20 April. The Bretton Woods Project will provide analysis of the meetings’ communiqués, notes from CSPF seminars and more on BWP’s Dispatch page.

Key themes to be discussed include increased engagement with fragile states, climate change, the IMF’s social protection work, implementation of the Bank’s Maximising Finance for Development approach, the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis, bridging the global infrastructure gap and the capital increase for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, the Bank’s middle-income arm), the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the Bank’s private sector arm), and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA, the World Bank’s political risk insurance arm).