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  • People in suits outside the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2025. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank

    Inside the institutionsAccountability

    IFC Sustainability Framework Review

    This Inside the Institutions critically analyses the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) review of its Sustainability Framework, amidst intensifying scrutiny of its harmful investments.

  • 2023 World Bank Annual Meetings. Development Committee Meeting.

    Inside the institutionsIFI governance

    The World Bank shareholding review – reform or ritual?

    Focusing on the 2025 Shareholding Review, this Inside the Institutions explores power asymmetries within the World Bank and growing calls for equitable, transparent and accountable governance reform.

  • The World Bank Group's Country Partnership Framework 2018-23 for India aimed at supporting the country's transition to a higher middle-income country. Photo: Curt Carnemark / World Bank

    Inside the institutionsIFI governance

    A closer look at the World Bank’s revised Country Partnership Framework

    This Inside the Institutions explores the World Bank’s revised Country Partnership Framework, which aims to boost the impact of its country programmes through focus and efficiency.

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  • Inside the institutionsFinance

    What is the World Bank & IMF debt sustainability framework for low-income countries?

    This Inside the Institutions examines the joint World Bank and IMF Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) for low-income countries (LICs) and evaluates its impact on LICs’ ability to maintain fiscal space for development and climate goals.

  • Inside the institutionsPrivate Sector

    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.

  • Protester holding a banner with the message System change, not climate change

    Inside the institutionsEnvironment

    The World Bank and climate finance: Success story or a new era of green ‘structural adjustment’?

    This Inside the Institutions analyses the World Bank’s climate finance, examining its impact on low- and middle-income countries’ climate objectives.

  • Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva holds a Caribbean Ministerial Roundtable on the Resilience and Sustainability Trust at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, 17 June 2022. Credit: Kim Haughton/ IMF Photo

    Inside the institutionsEnvironment

    What is the IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust?

    This Inside the Institutions looks at IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) reflecting on concerns about its eligibility criteria, quota limit, and ‘green conditions’.

  • ExplainersRights

    The World Bank’s approach to human rights

    This Inside the Institutions explores how the World Bank approaches human rights in the context of the international human rights obligations of international financial and development institutions.

  • Inside the institutionsGender

    The World Bank’s approach to gender mainstreaming

    This Inside the Institutions looks at the World Bank’s current approach to gender mainstreaming, reflecting on and comparing it to previous Bank approaches to addressing gender inequality.

  • ExplainersWB/IMF roles

    What are the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings?

    This Inside the Institutions looks at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings, one of two official yearly events bringing together BWI governors, officials, civil society, academics and journalists to discuss major economic developments and global governance.