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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.
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World Bank gender strategy risks undermining new human rights language with continued private sector bias
World Bank’s gender draft strategy for 2024-2030 steps up to name gender a human rights issue but fails to address barriers perpetuated by Bank’s macroeconomic model, while civil society warns of need to move away from Bank’s Maximising Finance for Development model as austerity sweeps the globe.
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Gender progress at risk as new World Bank president enters pushing private-sector focus
New report by ActionAid UK highlights critical importance of public services that are gender responsive, while new Bank President Ajay Banaga’s private sector push signals concern for gender equality.
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Time to get Macro? Gendered effects of World Bank macroeconomic policy amidst IFI reform
Notes from the CSPF panel “Time to get Macro? Gendered effects of World Bank macroeconomic policy amidst IFI reform” on Friday the 14th of April 2023.
