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Bankability over needs: Development finance for whom?
World Bank’s private capital push seeks to scale up guarantees and blended finance while transparency lags, debt rises and the poorest countries keep losing out.
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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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New World Bank mineral and metals strategy challenged to avoid pitfalls of extractionist approach
Despite focus on country mining compacts, World Bank’s new mineral and metals strategy, likely to struggle to escape previous extractionist pitfalls.
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World Bank’s Water Forward initiative: Ensuring equitable water security, or narrowing paths to public solutions?
Water Forward promises water security for one billion people by 2030 but its focus on private capital mobilisation and big infrastructure risks excluding the world’s poorest from affordable access.
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Global Partnerships Conference and World Bank Group’s London Financial Solutions Hub put spotlight on UK’s private finance push
UK’s Global Partnerships Conference reflects rich nations’ broader shift towards private finance as development solution over structural reform, whilst City of London is to become the World Bank Group’s new London Financial Solutions Hub.
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Enabling remedy strategies for the effective implementation of IFC’s interim Remedial Action Framework
This session discussed the IFC’s Interim Approach to Remedial Action (RAF), the first such remedy framework by a major DFI.
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Hard-wiring hunger: Bretton Woods Institutions and the financialisation of food systems
This report examines how IMF and World Bank policies have contributed to reshaping global food systems to prioritise financial speculation over food security.
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Securing a role for the private sector: IFC’s first securitisation transaction aims to mobilise private capital, but at what cost?
The IFC has made its first ever securitisation transaction of $510 million, in a bid to mobilise private finance.
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UN80: A missed opportunity for transformation?
Member states must deliver on strategic transformation that enables UN to respond to growing crises.
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Will the World Bank be a partner for a just energy transition in developing countries?
As renewable energy finance shifts from China to the World Bank, whether the Bank can be a partner for a just energy transition depends on three areas: strong environmental and social oversight, avoiding a new resource curse in minerals and debt relief during crises.
