BWP publishes booklet on gender-just macroeconomics, a guide to engaging the IMF and World Bank.
Gender impacts
Gender
Analysis
The IMF and Gender Equality: A Critical Analysis
The Bretton Woods Project has published a briefing providing a critical analysis of the IMF's latest work on gender equality. The briefing questions the sustainability of the Fund's new approach to gender equality and reveals that the Fund's analysis so far is limited and inconsistent with the full achievement of women's economic empowerment.
Finance
News
World Bank withholds new lending for Uganda
The World Bank has announced that it is withholding new lending for Uganda, following the cancellation of a criticised road project.
Gender
Background
Mind the gaps: Toward a new World Bank Group gender equality strategy
Notes from the 8 October session of the World Bank gender strategy at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings CSO Policy Forum 2015.
Gender
Background
Missing the bigger picture for women’s economic empowerment? Wages, labor and taxation policies in focus
Notes from a meeting at the IMF/World Bank CSO Forum at the 2016 Spring meetings, exploring human rights, social policy and gender equality, examining the IMF’s pilot surveillance work on inequality and gender and the World Bank’s new gender strategy.
Gender
News
Gender equality at the IFIs: progress or PR?
The World Bank and the IMF have increased their rhetoric on gender equality, but concerns remain about Fund and Bank impacts on gender equality in practice.
Gender
Analysis
IMF on gender and income inequality: from research to implementation
New IMF staff discussion note links gender and economic equality, but will this research influence IMF policy?
Gender
News
World Bank releases new gender strategy
The World Bank Group released its new Gender Strategy for 2016-2023 in December.
Gender
News
Gender progress? The World Bank's approach to new gender strategy criticised
As the World Bank consultation on its new gender strategy closes, NGOs shareholders criticise the Bank's approach.
Gender
Analysis
Response to World Bank's gender strategy
A joint NGO submission to the World Bank's gender strategy consultation.
Featured briefings
14 December 2020
Gambling with our lives: Global emergencies expose consequences of decades of IMF and World Bank policies
Market-led policy approaches increasingly used to deal with both climate and health emergencies are failing to protect those most vulnerable.
10 December 2020
The Bretton Woods Observer: Winter 2020
12 October 2020