This panel discussion reflected on the major sustainability challenges facing the World Bank through exploring two World Resources Institute areas - a portfolio analysis on 2012 projects, and the interaction between country systems and World Bank safeguard approaches.
Strategy/roles
Land
Background
An update and briefing on the global agriculture and food security program (GAFSP)
World Bank briefing on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) with a particular focus on recent private sector window projects.
Finance
Background
IDA results and replenishment
Minutes of an event at the 2013 spring meetings
Social services
Background
Leveraging private finance with public money: Positive Innovation? Corporate Welfare?
This event explored how modalities to "leverage" the private sector are beginning to appear in different ways in the World Bank and donors' agenda, and the challenges they pose.
Environment
Background
CSO meeting with Ms. Ksenia Yudaeva, G20 sherpa, Russian Federation
This event featured a discussion between CSOs and the Russian Federation G20 sherpa covering topics including food & nutrition security, jobs and the post-2015 development agenda.
IFI governance
Background
After recent court decisions: how can sovereign debt workouts become fair, comprehensive and account
This session examines the challenges which recent court decisions pose to sovereign debt workouts that allow for burden-sharing and take into account the social development needs of debtor countries.
Private Sector
Background
Discussion on IMF jobs and growth policies
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) sponsored discussion on macroeconomic policy in the Eurozone, and the challenges to restoring employment and growth.
Private Sector
Background
What next for the eurozone? Macroeconomic policy and the recession
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) sponsored discussion on macroeconomic policy in the Eurozone, and the challenges to restoring employment and growth.
Knowledge
Background
Frameworks to support IMF policy advice to low-income countries
This event examined financial Sector Surveillance in Low Income Countries - Financial Deepening and Macro-stability Financial Deepening and Macro-Stability
Accountability
News
Social accountability compromised?
The World Bank's controversial Global Partnership for Social Accountability, a new mechanism for the Bank to provide financing directly to civil society organisations, opened its first call for proposals from mid February to mid March.
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.