Environmental groups and activists claim victory after years of campaigning.
Anti-corruption
Accountability
Background
Tracking the trillions: Emergency funds, corruption and making the Covid-19 recovery work for all
Notes from Civil Society Policy Forum at the 2020 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings 29 September session on corruption and Covid-19 recovery.
Accountability
News
CSOs raise concerns about conflict of interest related to World Bank technical assistance loan in Guyana
Law firm contracted under World Bank technical assistance apparently backs out after CSOs expose links to ExxonMobil.
Accountability
News
Ukraine: Between a rock and IMF conditionality
Alarm bells ringing as Ukraine struggles to meet IMF conditionality on fuel prices and anti-corruption approach criticised
Accountability
News
World Bank's procurement policy review continues
In November 2013 the World Bank board approved a proposed new framework on procurement for its clients.
Accountability
News
World Bank reviews sanctions regime
The World Bank has begun reviewing its sanctions regime, but has been criticised by civil society for its lack of transparency.
Accountability
News
Indrawati under investigation over Indonesian banking scandal
In early May, World Bank managing director Sri Mulyani Indrawati answered questions from the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission in relation to a 6.7 trillion rupiah ($675 million) 2008 bailout of Bank Century.
IFI governance
Background
Bending the arc of poverty
The session focused on the World Bank's development strategy, poverty eradication goals, global inequality, and the threat of climate change.
IFI governance
Background
Financial and housing crises, the Bank's safeguards and the right to adequate housing
This session featured a presentation from UN special rapporteur on the links between financial and housing crises, safeguards and the right to adequate housing.
IFI governance
Background
The challenges of advancing sustainability at the World Bank
This panel discussion reflected on the major sustainability challenges facing the World Bank through exploring two World Resources Institute areas - a portfolio analysis on 2012 projects, and the interaction between country systems and World Bank safeguard approaches.
Featured briefings
30 March 2021
World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2021
23 March 2021
The Bretton Woods Observer: Spring 2021
23 March 2021
Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for deeper reforms of the global reserve system to address systemic inequalities
Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.