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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.
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Fuelling inequality: The gendered impacts of World Bank and IMF fuel subsidy removal
New BWP’s research provides evidence of the negative gendered impacts of fuel subsidy removal policies in Egypt, Kenya and Bangladesh.
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IEO’s fiscal policy evaluation highlights serious flaws in IMF surveillance
IEO’s new fiscal policy evaluation identifies serious flaws in the Fund’s fiscal policy advice, strengthening CSO calls for mandatory distributional, climate and gender impact assessments.
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Beyond loans: The human rights impacts of IMF conditionalities in Argentina
IMF conditionality review must acknowledge that macroeconomic stability cannot be built on erosion of rights, care systems and environment.
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The Rabat Roadmap: Activist resistance, militarism and the global economy
The Declaration is launched this month, bringing together feminist, economic justice and climate justice advocates’ demands for systemic change.
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BWP launches new briefing on IMF surveillance
New BWP briefing analyses the impact of IMF surveillance on gender and social inequality.
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Brace for impact: Social and gender inequality in IMF surveillance
New BWP briefing on IMF Surveillance finds IMF’s core policy direction has remained consistent over a 14-year period and is identical to that previously described as “structural adjustment”.
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Civil society defends feminist demands amidst threats to women’s rights and fresh questions over the role of the BWIs
It is a dangerous time for gender as a development priority. As Donald Trump entered…
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World Bank fails to incorporate key elements of new Gender Strategy in IDA21 policy package and Corporate Scorecard
Despite Bank’s new Gender Strategy’s positive offerings on human rights and the value of public services to women and girls, IDA21 replenishment and new Corporate Scorecard see women only as economic opportunity for the private finance push.
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IMF’s Interim Guidance Note on Mainstreaming Gender fails to address negative gendered impacts of IMF austerity
Gender Guidance note offers non-mandatory advice to staff on mainstreaming gender but integration of existing in-depth critiques from feminists and civil society needed to tackle gender inequality is missing.
