The international financial system’s reliance upon credit ratings – usually based on dubious premises – needs urgent rethinking.
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Finance
Analysis
The IMF and World Bank-led Covid-19 recovery: ‘Building back better’ or locking in broken policies?
Early evidence suggests IMF programmes are maintaining long-term fiscal consolidation targets, while World Bank further continues Maximizing Finance for Development narrative amidst Covid-19 crisis.
Infrastructure
Analysis
World Bank must ensure new Africa energy strategy is inclusive and pro-poor
The Bank’s new Africa energy strategy offers it an important chance to mainstream achieving SDG7 into its energy lending on the continent.
Conditionality
Analysis
The IMF’s role in the devastating impacts of Covid-19 – the case of Ecuador
IMF-backed austerity measures starved health sector prior to pandemic, yet Fund continues to prescribe devastating long-term fiscal consolidation.
Rights
Analysis
Fears of lawsuits at World Bank’s tribunal constrain efforts to fight pandemic
Covid-19 pandemic highlights the urgent need for ICSID and wider ISDS reforms as cases threaten to undermine state efforts to protect public health.
IFI governance
Analysis
Spring Meetings 2020 wrap-up: Will this change everything? Apparently not…
Analysis of this year's World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings: With international response to Covid-19 mired in geopolitical manoeuverings and resistance to systemic change, calls for alternatives grow.
IFI governance
Analysis
Fears of shrinking civil society space as World Bank Staff Association calls for axing of Spring Meetings
World Bank Staff Association's call for permanent cancellation of Spring Meetings and its CSPF raises long-standing concerns about the need for improved civil society engagement by the Bank and Fund.
IFI governance
Analysis
Development Committee communiqué analysis - Spring Meetings 2020
Analysis of the Development Committee communiqué published on 17 April.
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IFI governance
Analysis
CSO roundtable with World Bank Group executive directors
Sponsor: World Bank Group Chairs: Merza Hasan (WB Executive Director, MENA Constituency), Lindsay Coates (Acting…
Environment
Analysis
CIFs and the private sector
Information on the private sector and the CIFs taken from each section of CIF Monitor…
IFI governance
Analysis
Annual meetings 2014: communiqués coverage
G24 communiqué (09 October): analysis, original document G20 finance ministers' communiqué (10 October): original document…
Environment
Analysis
NGOs call for halt of World Bank’s climate initiatives
In July 2012 NGOs called on governments to pivot away from funding the Bank-housed Climate…
Environment
Analysis
CIFs Monitor: past issues
Climate Investment Funds Monitor 7 25 April 2013 This briefing, including references, can also be…
IFI governance
Analysis
Submission to the International Development Committee of the UK parliament: inquiry into the World B
The UK should not increase its contribution to IDA in the current replenishment. Instead, it should focus on achieving substantial reforms of the World Bank and IFC in key areas, including health, gender, climate and energy, and the private sector, and in radically improving the legitimacy, transparency and accountability of the institution.
Finance
Analysis
The International Monetary System:
Summary of seminar held at the Civil Society Forum during the 2010 World Bank/ IMF spring meetings.
IFI governance
Analysis
Bretton Woods Project submission on the DFID White Paper
In a submission the the DFID white paper consultation, we set out the significant change needed at the World Bank and IMF to bring them into line both with international norms and with UK policy, in order to improve their contribution to sustainable development. In this submission we outline changes needed in: IFI governance; IFI conditionality policies; IFI policies related to aid effectiveness; IFI policy on climate change; private-sector finance; and the financial sector's impact on devel
