Accountability

Background

Communications Manager vacancy (CLOSED)

BWP is looking for a new Communications Manager interested in joining our small and passionate team.

IFI governance

Analysis

Spring Meetings 2018 wrap-up: Bigger and better you say?!

Analysis and look-back of this year's World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings; CSOs remain unconvinced of Bank's capital increase while Fund deals with looming debt crisis.

IFI governance

Analysis

G24 communiqué analysis - Spring 2018

Analysis of the G24 communiqué, issued on 19 April, from the 2018 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, Washington DC.

IFI governance

Analysis

IMFC communiqué analysis – Spring 2018

Analysis of the IMFC communiqué, issued on 18 April, from the 2018 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, Washington DC.

IFI governance

Background

A lost decade for human rights? Assessing austerity and its alternatives 10 years on from the financial crisis

Notes from the 20 April Civil Society Policy Forum session on assessing austerity and its alternatives 10 years after the global financial crisis at the World Bank and IMF's Spring Meetings.

IFI governance

Background

Financial crisis 10 years on. Has the response to 2008 laid the foundations for the next?

Notes from the 19 April Civil Society Policy Forum session on the response to the 2008 financial crisis at the World Bank and IMF's Spring Meetings.

IFI governance

Analysis

Spring Meetings 2018 Preamble: Despite favourable growth trends, World Bank and IMF's attempts to tackle debt and inequality remain elusive

On the ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis, the World Bank and IMF have much to ponder ahead of the upcoming 2018 Spring Meetings.

Finance

News

Tax Platform hosts tax and SDGs conference - hold the SDGs

Civil society finds lack of progressivity at first tax and development conference hosted by Tax Platform, as governments are left out of political negotiations and hopes of G77 for global tax body appear to fizzle out.

Conditionality

Analysis

The impacts of IMF-backed austerity on women’s rights in Brazil

The IMF and World Bank-endorsed 20 year spending freeze in Brazil disproportionately impacts women and other marginalised groups, despite less harmful alternatives being available

Conditionality

Analysis

Pro-poor or anti-poor? The World Bank and IMF’s approach to social protection

Stephen Kidd critiques Bretton Woods Institutions' approach to targeted social protection systems, arguing the poor lose out the most.

Conditionality

Background

Miriam Brett joins BWP as International Development Finance Project Manager

Miriam Brett will manage BWP's work on areas relating to international development finance, with a focus on macroeconomic scrutiny of the IMF

Conditionality

Analysis

World Bank report on fiscal adjustment in Brazil: questionable analysis; unfair policies

The World Bank’s report on public spending in Brazil raises serious questions about the methodology used and relevance of the report’s focus on fiscal consolidation in light of its own admission that the deterioration of Brazil’s fiscal situation is due principally to the recession.