As the world struggles with divergent recovery paths from the pandemic, the IMF and World Bank once again failed to take the decisive action required during the Spring Meetings.
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IFI governance
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Development Committee communiqué analysis - Spring 2021
Analysis of the IMF and World Bank Development Commitee communiqué published on 9 April from the 2021 World Bank and IMF virtual Spring Meetings.
IFI governance
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IMFC communiqué analysis – Spring Meetings 2021
Analysis of the IMFC communiqué published on 8 April from the 2021 World Bank and IMF virtual Spring Meetings.
Finance
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G20 communiqué analysis – Spring Meetings 2021
Analysis of the G20 communiqué published on 7 April from the 2021 World Bank and IMF virtual Spring Meetings.
IFI governance
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G24 communiqué analysis – Spring Meetings 2021
Analysis of the G24 communiqué released on 5 April from the 2021 virtual World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.
IFI governance
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Spring Meetings 2021 Preamble: Will the IMF and World Bank meet international financing needs and break with flawed policy prescriptions?
As countries begin to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, key questions around global coordinated stimulus need to be answered by the IMF and World Bank.
Social services
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World Bank support for Covid-19 vaccination fails to ensure equitable access
World Bank’s Covid-19 vaccination programme contributes to global response but fails to ensure free access to vaccines and healthcare during the pandemic.
Rights
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Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for deeper reforms of the global reserve system to address systemic inequalities
Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.
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CSO roundtable with World Bank Group executive directors
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IFI governance
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Annual meetings 2014: communiqués coverage
G24 communiqué (09 October): analysis, original document G20 finance ministers' communiqué (10 October): original document…
Environment
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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
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CIFs Monitor: past issues
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IFI governance
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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
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The International Monetary System:
Summary of seminar held at the Civil Society Forum during the 2010 World Bank/ IMF spring meetings.
IFI governance
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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
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Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for deeper reforms of the global reserve system to address systemic inequalities
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