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Surviving the pipeline? A critical analysis of the WBG’s policy approach to gender equality and macroeconomic reform through the lending process
While gender considerations are increasingly integrated into the World Bank diagnostics and strategies, they often sit alongside policy reforms that can have a negative impact on gender equality.
Annual Meetings 2026 Preamble: BWIs return to Asia with their central role in 1997 financial crisis still casting long shadow, amid fears of future upheaval
IMF reviews risk resulting in further Fund-mandated austerity amid an already bleak global context, while Bank’s fixation with private capital deepens.
Bankability over needs: Development finance for whom?
World Bank’s private capital push seeks to scale up guarantees and blended finance while transparency lags, debt rises and the poorest countries keep losing out.
We have an axe to grind with the World Bank on Africa’s electrification
Bank’s booster Mission 300 reporting data means additionality of new initiative regarding new energy connections unclear.
The new geopolitics of food demands a new economics of resilience
Four decades of IFI-driven neoliberal policies made food systems fragile by design.
Amazonian groups call for reform of financial architecture and end to extractivism
FOSPA challenges BWIs role in financing extractive development, calling for debt cancellation, climate finance and respect for territorial rights.
From stigma to evidence: The World Bank’s shift on industrial policy
Bank report reverses opposition to industrial policy, reframing the question from “whether to undertake it” to “how to do it.”
IMF concludes major reviews of its lending and surveillance with CSOs warning against a return to deeper austerity
IMF’s lending and surveillance reviews conclude without major improvements to policy processes while civil society warns against a return to harmful structural adjustment.
Turmoil at World Bank’s CAO highlights need for reform of accountability processes
Concerns about independence, effectiveness and credibility of accountability processes at the World Bank are mounting, with civil society releasing a new letter calling for IFC and MIGA’s Sustainability Framework review to reflect best practices and international standards.
Civil society raises concerns about erosion of civic space at World Bank and IMF Spring and Annual Meetings
Letter criticises erosion of civil society autonomy in selection of Civil Society Policy Forum events.
