As the World Bank publishes a report calling for labour market deregulation, global trade unions fight back.
WDR
Knowledge
News
Concerns over World Bank's WDR on education
CSOs raise concerns about content and consultation process of World Bank World Development Report 2018 on education.
Social services
News
WDR on governance: paradigm shift or cosmetic procedure?
World Bank’s 2017 World Development Report on governance introduced the importance of politics, but its impact has been questioned.
Knowledge
News
WDR 2015: Mind over matter
Behavioural economics is the basis for the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report but is criticised for ignoring the impact of power and politics.
Knowledge
News
“Mind and culture” topic for next WDR
The World Bank has announced that the World Development Report 2015, due to be published in autumn 2014, will focus on Mind and culture.
Social services
Analysis
The Doing Business review: a test of World Bank leadership
By this year's October annual meetings, we will know what the World Bank board has decided on what happens next to that institution's controversial and most popular publication, the Doing Business report.
Knowledge
News
Bank announces 2014 WDR topic: risk management
In December the World Bank published a concept note for its 2014 World Development Report, which will address risk management.
Rights
Analysis
World Bank on jobs: a "significant departure" or "business as usual"?
The opening sentences of the 2013 World Development Report Jobs, could not be clearer: "Jobs are the cornerstone of economic and social development". Brendan Martin of UK NGO Public World examines the policy implications for developing economies, trade unions and the wider development community.
Trade
News
World Bank on jobs: "a race to the bottom"?
Two October World Bank reports reveal a contradictory message for developing countries' labour markets.
Infrastructure
Analysis
The World Bank and industrial policy: Hands off or hands on?
Former deputy secretary general of UNCTAD Carlos Fortin, of the Institute of Development Studies, examines the Bank's record on industrial policy over the last 20 years and shows that the Bank's position is more nuanced.
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.