Background

Accountability

Background

Strengthening Accountability in the Global Economy Project Lead (closed)

BWP seeks a project lead to manage its Strengthening Accountability in the Global Economy Project, which will seek to promote improved governance and equity at the World Bank and IMF.

1 June 2022 | Project news

IFI governance

Background

The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust: Can an IMF-managed SDRs trust deliver inclusive & sustainable recoveries?

Notes from the 11 April Civil Society Policy Forum - The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust: Can an IMF-managed SDRs trust deliver inclusive & sustainable recoveries?

14 April 2022 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

Towards a World Bank Private Sector Development Strategy that Puts People and Planet before Profit

Notes from Civil Society Policy Forum event on 13 April 2022 titled 'Towards a World Bank Private Sector Development Strategy that Puts People and Planet before Profit'

13 April 2022 | Minutes

Gender

Background

The Bretton Woods Project welcomes new gender project staff

BWP is pleased to welcome Friederike Strub as our Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Lead and Amy McShane as Gender Project Officer.

6 April 2022 | Project news

IFI governance

Background

Are we heading towards an austerity-based recovery?

Notes from Civil Society Policy Forum event on April 13, 2022 on "Are We Heading Towards and Austerity-Based Recovery?"

13 April 2022 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

The IMF Gender Strategy - Making the Economy Work for Women?

Notes from Civil Society Policy Forum event on 13 April 2022 titled 'The IMF Gender Strategy - Making the Economy Work for Women?'

13 April 2022 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

The WBG's investments in private healthcare provision: What implications for the right to health?

Notes from civil society policy forum on 12 April on the WBG's investments in private healthcare provision: What implications for the right to health?

12 April 2022

IFI governance

Background

MISSING RECEIPTS: How did DFIs’ covid-19 response affect human and environmental rights during the pandemic?

Notes from Civil Society Policy Forum event on April 11, 2022, on: "MISSING RECEIPTS: How did DFIs’ COVID-19 Response Affect Human and Environmental Rights during the Pandemic?"

11 April 2022 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

Did pandemic spending go towards a Feminist People’s Recovery in Africa and Latin America?

Notes from Civil Society Policy Forum event on 8 April 2022 titled 'Did Pandemic Spending Go towards a Feminist People’s Recovery in Africa and Latin America?'

8 April 2022 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

The future is public: Prioritizing public services in the light of Covid and climate change

Notes from the 7 April Civil Society Policy Forum - The future is public: Prioritizing public services in the light of Covid and climate change.

7 April 2022 | Minutes

Finance

Background

What are IMF surcharges?

This Inside the Institutions looks at the issue of surcharges, which are additional interest payments the IMF imposes on countries with large, outstanding debts to the IMF.

6 April 2022 | Inside the institutions

Finance

Analysis

Our World in 2021

While the Bank stressed the need for a recovery based on Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development and the IMF highlighted its concerns about the divergent paths of the global recovery in 2021, both continued to support largely unreformed policies.

2 March 2022