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Spring Meetings 2026 Wrap-up: America First exacerbates global instability as war on Iran leads to latest economic shock
The Spring Meetings offered a chilling response to the persisting strains of global instability and multilateralism in crisis.
IMFC chair’s summary analysis Spring Meetings 2026
IMFC was unable to release a joint communique once again due to the continued fragmentation of an already strained multilateral consensus at the Fund.
G20 ministerial positions analysis Spring Meetings 2026
G20 meeting ends without a joint position as disagreements over war in Middle East adds to tensions within the Group and hampers international cooperation.
G24 communiqué analysis Spring Meetings 2026
The Group highlighted the severe fallout of US and Israel war on Iran and Lebanon amid constraints facing EMDEs, including tight fiscal space and high debt.
V20 communiqué analysis Spring Meetings 2026
V20 countries push for a rethink of World Bank and IMF’s approach to debt, amid yet another deep global shock.
Development Committee ministerial statements analysis Spring Meetings 2026
The Spring 2026 Development Committee produced separated ministerial statements revealing an institution struggling to agree on anything.
Enabling remedy strategies for the effective implementation of IFC’s interim Remedial Action Framework
This session discussed the IFC’s Interim Approach to Remedial Action (RAF), the first such remedy framework by a major DFI.
Financing caring economies beyond extraction: Feminist perspectives on tax justice, AI and development
Feminist panellists interrogated AI’s rapid expansion, asking whose labour powers these systems and who is left out – and how to prevent digital capitalism from deepening existing patterns of extraction and inequality.
From “unaffordability” to rights: Claiming fiscal space for universal social security
This session discussed how, for years, universal social security has been portrayed as fiscally unaffordable. However, new research and regional case studies challenge this assumption.
The IMF Review of Conditionality: Putting the IMF’s money where its research is
This session examined whether the Fund learns from research, highlighting gaps in growth realism, fiscal policy, social spending, and political economy reforms.
