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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.”
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Jamaica’s World Bank-brokered catastrophe bond fails to pay despite devastation of Hurricane Beryl
Bond’s ‘parametric criteria’ were not triggered by powerful storm, despite the entire island being declared a disaster zone.
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What is the International Finance Corporation (IFC)?
This Inside the Institutions explores the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private sector arm. It examines the function of the IFC as a development institution focused solely on private sector solutions to development and considers civil society critiques.
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An Evolution Roadmap responsive to development crises? Towards an external evaluation of the World Bank’s cascade
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum on 11 October 2023 titled, “An Evolution Roadmap responsive to development crises? Towards an external evaluation of the World Bank’s cascade.”
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The B-Ready Project: A significant departure from the Doing Business Report?
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum on 12 October 2023 titled, “The B-Ready Project: A significant departure from the Doing Business Report?”
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Private sector accountability in times of crisis
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum session on 29 March.
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Recipe for disaster: The IMF and World Bank’s role in the financialisation of food and agriculture
World Bank and IMF contribute to financialisation and coorperatisation of agriculture contributing to food insecurity, concentration of power and climate emergency.
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IFC launches consultation on draft Operating Principles for Impact Management
As IFC launches consultation on draft Principles, its declining development outcome performance as ‘first impact investor’ provides useful point of departure.
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How the Bank’s push for microcredit failed the poor
Originally created to help the poor escape poverty and deprivation, the World Bank became the most important advocate for the commercialised microcredit model. Yet, critics argued it undermined the chances of sustainable and equitable development to create a poverty trap of historic proportions.
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CSOs call on World Bank to halt its aggressive support of PPPs
152 CSOs call demand World Bank halt its aggressive support of PPPs, publicaly recognise their significant risks.
