IMF and World Bank face up to slowing global economy, but downplay risks of new debt crises for low income countries
Macroeconomic policy
Conditionality
Analysis
IMF policy in the MENA region: Lessons unlearnt
New report reveals IMF policy in the MENA region has remained unchanged after the 2011 Arab uprising, despite its rhetoric for change towards inclusive growth.
Conditionality
Commentary
Bankspeak of the year 2015
Every year the Bretton Woods Project highlights some of the most farcical remarks of Fund and Bank staff.
Knowledge
Background
Lurking behind plummeting oil prices: Advancing structural adjustment
Notes from a meeting at the IMF/World Bank CSO Forum at the 2015 Annual meetings, focusing on macroeconomic challenges for the MENA region.
Conditionality
Background
Causes and consequences of income inequality: A global perspective
Notes from a meeting on income inequality during the World Bank spring meetings.
IFI governance
Background
Emerging markets in transition: growth prospects and challenges
Notes of a meeting on emerging markets in transition at the World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2014
Finance
News
IMF augments new lending facilities after earlier reviews
An IMF review of three new lending facilities has resulted in only "cosmetic" changes critics say.
Knowledge
Analysis
Let them eat cake! IMF the equality champion?
The IMF released papers accepting the case against inequality, however it shows no indication of changing its demands upon borrowing countries.
Conditionality
Analysis
IMF blames the victims as markets thow another taper tantrum
As emerging markets suffer renewed bout of financial volatility, risk of worse to come as IMF struggles to provide even-handed global policy coordination.
Conditionality
Analysis
IMF conditionality and its discontents
A new study shows a significant worldwide pattern of protests targeting the IMF, reflecting the increase in IMF influence through loan programmes with austerity conditions attached and indirect pressure on governments.
Featured briefings
16 October 2024
The Bretton Woods Observer: Autumn 2024
16 October 2024
The lost call for international financial architecture reform in the G20
At the 80th anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, global civil society must maintain pressure on the Brazilian and South African G20 presidencies to ensure the forth Financing for Development Conference in 2025 results in urgently required international financial architecture reform.
16 October 2024
Sustainable development requires sustainable finance: why local currency financing is part of the solution
Multilateral development banks can reduce their dependence on hard currency lending and make local currency financing a central element of their developmental mandate.