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Banga’s decision to join US-led Board of Peace raises questions about World Bank’s commitment to multilateralism
Bank’s role as trustee for Board of Peace’s Gaza Reconstruction and Development Fund, and Banga’s involvement in board, condemned by civil society.
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Global governance and development: Toward equitable burden sharing and agenda-setting
By design, global governance has kept the UN out of financial policy decision-making and norm-setting, leaving Global South countries hostage to the damaging consequences of BWIs neoliberal policies.
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Britain as a global financial superpower: The UK’s 2027 G20 Presidency is a historic opportunity to fix the system
UK’s 2027 G20 Presidency offers a rare chance to fix systemic imbalances at little cost.
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From risk perception to financial power: Africa’s credit rating ambition
African Union’s proposed Credit Rating Agency aims to rebalance sovereign risk assessment but its success will depend on credibility, methodological innovation and investor trust.
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Civil society calls for debt cancellation and end to IMF-mandated austerity as cyclone devastates Sri Lanka
With Cyclone Ditwah and war in Iran hitting debt laiden Sri Lanka, civil society calls for urgent debt cancellation.
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Challenging primacy of BWIs urgent as threats to UN and multilateralism deepen
UN80 reform process and establishment of ‘Board of Peace’ increase threats of erosion of UN’s role.
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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.
