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IMF comprehensive surveillance review: looking back and forward
This session discussed the IMF’s upcoming comprehensive review of conditionality, and civil society calls to ensure future IMF policy advice supports long-term stability and equitable economic outcomes.
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Debt decisions that deliver: Strengthening domestic institutions for accountable borrowing
In this session experts from Senegal, Kenya, the IMF and WFD highlighted how stronger debt transparency and oversight are essential to equity, accountability, and restoring public trust.
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A Jubilee 2025 call for a fair debt architecture: Bridging ethics and policy
This session explored recommendations to reimagine the role of the BWIs pertaining to debt, bailout packages, and pro-cyclical and austerity policies.
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From Seville to the CSPF: Reimagining IMF governance for a multilateralism fit for purpose
This session built on FfD4 outcomes to explore how UN-led processes, feminist and regional movements, and IMF/WBG reform reviews can embed rights-aligned, gender-responsive, climate-just principles into global economic governance.
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Cross-institutional collaboration in times of multilateral fragmentation; challenges and opportunities in IMF-UN collaboration
This CSPF session explored opportunities to strengthen IMF-UN collaboration at the country level.
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Fuelling authoritarianism: The role of the Fund and Bank in eroding the social contract
BWIs’ policies continue to contribute to the rise of populism, authoritarianism and backlash against multilateralism despite the institutions’ long-standing concerns and rhetorical support for reform.
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The Bretton Woods twins and the Trump tariffs: Implications for the Global South
The US’s decision to forsake core tenets of neoliberalism potentially deepens IMF’s crisis of legitimacy.
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Mass protests erupt in Angola following IMF-backed fuel subsidy removals
Civil society warns that without wider debt relief removing consumer subsidies simply shifts the burden onto the poor.
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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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Civil society urges the IFC and ADB to cancel financing for Pakistan copper mine
Located in a militarised region, the project risks exacerbating social disruption and environmental destruction.
