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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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Mission 300 & clean cooking: Delivering energy access, gender justice and health at scale
This session explored how national energy compacts can deliver affordable, accessible cooking solutions at scale through financing models, policy alignment, and accountability mechanisms.
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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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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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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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Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development exposes continued lack of commitment to address systemic issues
Despite the watered down consensus at FfD4, follow up opportunities must be seized upon to advance the agenda of international financial architecture reform in the coming years.
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Missing labour: Fixing the Fund’s approach to the gendered division of labour
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum on Thursday the 24th of April titled ‘Missing labour: Fixing the Fund’s approach to the gendered division of labour’
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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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FfD4 is a feminist issue
Civil society Financing for Development (FfD) Mechanism calls for FfD4 conference to deliver meaningful reform and a true path towards democratic multilateralism.
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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.
