IMF gender research direction shifts away from macroeconomic drivers of gender inequality.
Gender impacts
Gender
Background
Creating a Caring Economy: The role of IFIs and the CEDAW framework in transformative change
Notes from the Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum session on 23 March.
Gender
News
World Bank gender-based violence mechanism raises "serious concerns"
World Bank procurement mechanism faces questions over community engagement
Gender
News
Letter to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on women's rights and gender equality
Over 60 civil society organisations call on the IMF to focus on the harmful impacts of its own policy advice on women's rights and gender equality.
Finance
News
IMF's continued VAT push inconsistent with rhetoric on progressive taxes
As the IMF celebrates the rise of VAT, women and those least able to pay are left behind in worsening inequality crisis.
IFI governance
Analysis
Annual Meetings 2020 Preamble: IMF and World Bank frontload austerity and privatisation in Covid-19 recovery, while the world calls for more inclusive multilateralism
As the inability of Bank and Fund to adapt their policies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic becomes more evident, hope turns to the UN system and a radical restructure of the global international financial architecture.
Conditionality
Background
Fiscal space for universal health and social protection post Covid-19 pandemic: How to prevent austerity
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum Session on 2 October.
Gender
Background
Building a feminist recovery for all: Gender transformative policies are more urgent than ever
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 1 October.
Finance
Analysis
World Bank and IMF response to debt crisis undermines women’s rights
25 years after Beijing Declaration, austerity and privatisation still modus operandi of Bretton Woods Institutions at the cost of women's rights.
Gender
News
UN holds Pakistan to account for IMF programme impacts on women
Concerns raised about IMF conditions pushing women back into poverty and informal work.
Featured briefings
13 July 2021
The IMF's Comprehensive Surveillance Review: A bungled attempt at meeting the moment
Review maintains inadequate and inconsistent approach to economic and gender inequality, as well as climate change.
13 July 2021
The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2021
30 March 2021