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Finance

Analysis

UN Financing for Development: the Fund and Bank's role & influence

This briefing analyses the role of the Bank and Fund in the UN Financing for Development negotiations.

3 July 2015 | At Issue

IFI governance

Analysis

A major political move: the BRICS launch the New Development Bank and a reserve arrangement

A new article, co-written by Eurodad and the Bretton Woods Project, analyses the BRICS' newly launched bank and reserve arrangement.

18 July 2014 | Review

Knowledge

News

Business as usual: World Bank rejects Doing Business reforms

World Bank publishes minor changes to its Doing Business report, addressing only one of the criticisms of an independent panel review while activists continue to highlight the damage done by the rankings.

20 June 2014

Finance

Analysis

BRICS Bank: New bottle, how’s the wine?

Last year BRICS' leaders agreed to launch a BRICS development bank. Whether this is considered positive depends in part what questions are being asked. Sameer Dossani of ActionAid International highlights the flaws in the World Bank and IMF, analyses whether a BRICS Bank could be different from these institutions and proposes what it should do and what it should look like.

27 February 2014 | At Issue

Private Sector

Analysis

ICSID and Latin America

Latin American states are actively exploring alternative mechanisms to the ICSID state-investor dispute mechanism which they claim has investor bias.

3 December 2013 | At Issue

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9 August 2022

Feminists demand end of UN Women’s partnership with Blackrock, Inc.

Association for Women's Rights in Development

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4 August 2022

UN, IMF disagree on who should foot the bill of the energy crisis

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30 July 2022

The International Monetary Fund: Holy grail or poisoned chalice?

The Business Standard

Gender

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27 July 2022

CARE analysis : 150 million more women than men were hungry in 2021

CARE International
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Ending “absolute immunity” for the International Finance Corporation: The legacy of Jam v. IFC

EarthRights International examines how the Jam v. IFC case has helped to shift the landscape of accountability for international financial institutions by successfully challenging their claim to “absolute” immunity in US courts, potentially opening IFC up to further legal challenges in future.

21 July 2022

The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2022

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World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2022

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Established in 1995, the Bretton Woods Project (BWP) is a civil society watchdog of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. By monitoring the work of these institutions, supporting and connecting critical civil society communities, and advocating for transformational change, the Project challenges their power and fights for the development of policies that are gender transformative, equitable, environmentally sustainable and consistent with international human rights norms.

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