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IEO’s fiscal policy evaluation highlights serious flaws in IMF surveillance
IEO’s new fiscal policy evaluation identifies serious flaws in the Fund’s fiscal policy advice, strengthening CSO calls for mandatory distributional, climate and gender impact assessments.
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IMF’s economic sustainability analyses fail to consider extreme wealth as macro-risk and address harms
New research by New Economics Foundation demonstrates extreme wealth is a macro-risk, yet this is excluded from IMF bilateral surveillance analyses.
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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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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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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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The IMF’s upcoming surveillance review: In an ever more urgent global context, the Fund must learn lessons from its past failures to reform
The IMF’s Comprehensive Surveillance Review takes place this year in a global context in which it is more pressing than ever to ensure that countries have the ability to take real action on climate change and rising social inequality.
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IMF surveillance scanner to be launched this summer
The scanner is designed to enable civil society groups to find key themes in IMF policy and better track the political implications of its recommendations in the areas of fiscal policy, austerity, gender, tax, climate, social protection and financialisaton.
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Civil society calls for public comment period on new IMF guidance note for staff on surveillance
CSOs write an open letter to IMF management calling for increased public scrutiny of Fund’s operationalisation of 2021 Comprehensive Surveillance Review.
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The IMF’s Comprehensive Surveillance Review: A bungled attempt at meeting the moment
Review maintains inadequate and inconsistent approach to economic and gender inequality, as well as climate change.
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IMF surveillance
This Inside the Institutions looks at IMF surveillance and explores its role in influencing countries’ macroeconomic policies .
