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G20 review calls for increased MDB lending as World Bank ignores urgent need for policy changes

G20 independent review calls for increased lending by multilateral development banks to address multiple crises, but lack of reform in World Bank crises response framework raises concerns about how it would use additional resources.

4 October 2022

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World Bank & IMF in the news

Conditionality

Analysis

28 September 2023

The World Bank’s water and sanitation policies in Tunisia

Transnational Institute

Social services

Analysis

27 September 2023

Don’t count on PPP solutions

Inter Press Service

Finance

News

27 September 2023

World Bank chief sees $100 bln-plus lending boost from capital moves

Reuters

Conditionality

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25 September 2023

IMF: Austerity loan conditions risk undermining rights

Human Rights Watch
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Featured briefings

Protest at COP27, celebrated in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022. Credit: Oliver Kornblihtt / Mídia NINJA
3 October 2023

Assessing the Bretton Woods Institutions’ legacy

New collection of critical essays by authors from MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa do a retrospective of the BWIs involvement in the region, and the legacy of BWIs-supported unjust and extractionist world economic order.

Protest at COP27, celebrated in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022. Credit: Oliver Kornblihtt / Mídia NINJA
2 October 2023

Reconceptualising Special Drawing Rights as a tool for development finance

Briefing examines the shortcomings of the current SDRs allocation system and calls to reform SDRs to ensure their targeted, needs-based and equitable distribution. 

Anti IMF loan protest in downtown, Cairo, 2012. Credit: Gigi Ibrahim / Flickr
27 September 2023

Financialisation and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

This briefing explains how the IMF and World Bank have driven the financialisation of MENA states, and the pervasive negative effects this has had on the region’s societies and economies.

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