Joseph Hanlon asks where the accountability for the Mozambique debt crisis lies and why the poor are once again paying the costs.
Analysis
Conditionality
Analysis
The IMF's approach to social protection and the crisis of multilateralism
UN Special Rapporteur publishes report on IMF and social protection, calls on Fund to practice what it preaches.
Knowledge
Analysis
Pro-business agenda drives World Bank’s report on the future of work
As the World Bank publishes a report calling for labour market deregulation, global trade unions fight back.
Conditionality
Analysis
Bad news for Argentina: The cruel IMF is back
As Argentina agrees to a $50 billion IMF loan, the ghost of loans past lingers, as protests erupt and strikes begin.
IFI governance
Analysis
IEG findings cast doubt on Bank's ability to deliver on general capital increase
New IEG report raises questions about the Bank’s ability to use findings from evaluations to inform its operations.
IFI governance
Analysis
Spring Meetings 2018 wrap-up: Bigger and better you say?!
Analysis and look-back of this year's World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings; CSOs remain unconvinced of Bank's capital increase while Fund deals with looming debt crisis.
IFI governance
Analysis
Development Committee communiqué analysis - Spring 2018
Analysis of the Development Committee communiqué issued on 21 April, from the 2018 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, Washington DC.
IFI governance
Analysis
G24 communiqué analysis - Spring 2018
Analysis of the G24 communiqué, issued on 19 April, from the 2018 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, Washington DC.
IFI governance
Analysis
IMFC communiqué analysis – Spring 2018
Analysis of the IMFC communiqué, issued on 18 April, from the 2018 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, Washington DC.
IFI governance
Analysis
Spring Meetings 2018 Preamble: Despite favourable growth trends, World Bank and IMF's attempts to tackle debt and inequality remain elusive
On the ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis, the World Bank and IMF have much to ponder ahead of the upcoming 2018 Spring Meetings.
Environment
Analysis
As World Bank signals end of extraction finance, CSOs call for end to its other fossil fuel funding
Despite World Bank's One Planet Summit announcement that it will stop funding oil and gas extraction after 2019, it still has much to do to fully decarbonise its lending portfolio.
Conditionality
Analysis
The impacts of IMF-backed austerity on women’s rights in Brazil
The IMF and World Bank-endorsed 20 year spending freeze in Brazil disproportionately impacts women and other marginalised groups, despite less harmful alternatives being available
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