Bretton Woods Project publishes its selection of the best books, reports and other resources on the World Bank and IMF from 2022.
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World Bank’s re-labelled Business Enabling Environment Project does little to address substantial flaws of Doing Business Report
Civil society calls for urgent evaluation of Doing Business impacts as the World Bank announces a rebranded Business Enabling Environment Project, failing to address underlying issues.
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It’s just the tip of the iceberg: civil society organisations call for an overhaul of the World Bank following the Doing Business Report scandal
More than 140 CSO groups and individuals call on the World Bank to focus on grappling with the harms caused by its undemocratic governance structure and biased publications like the Doing Business Report, and to take measures to decolonise the institution.
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Global civil society achieves significant victory as World Bank discontinues contentious Doing Business Report
Significant victory for global civil society and movements as World Bank ends Doing Business Report
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Background
Recommended resources on the World Bank and IMF 2021
Bretton Woods Project publishes its selection of the best books, reports and other resources on the World Bank and IMF from 2021.
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Analysis
Death of Doing Business Report greatly exaggerated as World Bank announces rebranding plans
World Bank announces relaunch of Doing Business Report in approximately two years.
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News
Doing Business Report to be published after temporary suspension over data irregularities
World Bank plans to publish latest DBR in March and undertake an external review of the report’s methodology.
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Recommended resources on the World Bank and IMF 2020
REPORTS 1. World Bank and IMF Covid-19 response: Covid-19 crisis: IMF told countries…
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As World Bank pauses Doing Business Report, pressure mounts for it to be permanently scrapped
Civil society, trade unions and academics call for permanent end of Doing Business Report as World Bank suspends its publication due to data irregularities.
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Recommended resources on the World Bank and IMF 2019
The Bretton Woods Project's selection of the best books, reports and other resources on the World Bank and IMF from 2019.
Featured briefings
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.
19 July 2023
The Bretton Woods Observer: Summer 2023
3 July 2023
Civil Society calls for rethink of World Bank’s ‘evolution roadmap’ as part of wider reforms to highly unequal global financial architecture
Joint civil society briefing paper highlights concerns with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, and provides a series of recommendations for a Roadmap that prioritises people, participation and the planet over profit and economic growth.