International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Gender

News

2024 Gender IFI Summer School

Gender IFI Summer School, brings together regional and global organisations working to advance economic justice issues, particularly from a feminist perspective, to discuss the IFIs’ impact on women’s rights and wellbeing, as well as strategies and tactics to push back.

12 September 2024 | Events

Gender

News

Tara Povey joins the Bretton Woods Project as new Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Project Lead

Tara will continue the work of the gender team in advocacy targeting the IMF and the World Bank.

3 July 2024 | Project news
The Bretton Woods Institutions at 80: where do we go from here?

IFI governance

News

The Bretton Woods Institutions at 80: Where do we go from here?

As the World Bank and IMF celebrate their 80th anniversary in 2024, on 10th July the Bretton Woods Project, together with the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, were joined by a distinguished group of panellists to critically analyse the opportunities for, and challenges to, reforms of the BWIs and the international financial architecture more broadly.

10 July 2024 | Events
cover illustration of the Observer Summer 2024

Finance

Analysis

IMF board’s reluctance leaves Special Drawing Rights as an underused tool in Fund's toolbox

IMF board's lukewarm endorsement of SDR rechanneling through MDBs stands in stark contrast to continued calls from Global South governments for additional SDR allocations, amid growing debt crisis.

3 July 2024

Conditionality

Commentary

Economics is political: the IMF’s programme in Egypt can’t succeed without reforming both

More debt without tackling the political sources of Egypt’s economic problems means a deepening of the crisis.

3 July 2024 | Guest comment
Civil society member holding a sign: Stop IMF Surcharges

Finance

Analysis

No false solutions: IMF surcharges must go

The IMF’s surcharges review presents a golden opportunity to eliminate these harmful and counterproductive fees.

3 July 2024 | Guest analysis

Gender

Analysis

IMF’s Interim Guidance Note on Mainstreaming Gender fails to address negative gendered impacts of IMF austerity

Gender Guidance note offers non-mandatory advice to staff on mainstreaming gender but integration of existing in-depth critiques from feminists and civil society needed to tackle gender inequality is missing.

3 July 2024

Finance

News

Pakistan’s debt crisis fuelled by more IMF loans

Pakistan on track to receive its 24th loan from the IMF after the lender disbursed the last tranche of the country’s latest $3 billion programme.

3 July 2024

IFI governance

News

WEBINAR: A way out of IMF reform

Join us on Wednesday 12th June for the webinar: A way out for IMF reform where we will be discussing the outcome of IMF’s 16th Quota Review and explore the future prospects for governance reform.

10 June 2024 | Events
Flags at the 2023 World Bank Annual Meetings, Marrakech, Morocco. Credit: World Bank / Franz Mahr

IFI governance

Analysis

A way out for IMF reform

New paper analyses the IMF 16th Quota Review and identifies key governance reforms feasible in the current economic and geopolitical context.

3 June 2024 | Briefings

IFI governance

Analysis

G20 press conference analysis Spring Meetings 2024: Concrete actions fail to materialise despite strong Brazilian push

In the absence of a G20 Communiqué or Chair statement, Brazilian minister of finance, head of the central bank and other senior officials took questions at a short press conference, with discussion focused on the impact of continued restrictive US monetary policy on the global debt and development finance and the need for more responsive and better capitalised MDBs.

24 April 2024

IFI governance

Analysis

V20 communiqué analysis Spring Meetings 2024: Climate vulnerable countries issue call to action, as net-negative flows result in ‘millions in, billions out’ amid growing debt burdens

V20 members are expected to pay $904.7 billion in debt service between 2022-2030, as debt, lack of financing and low projected growth hampers prospects for green economic transformation.

24 April 2024