Location: East Asia & Pacific

As America First casts doubt on plans to route climate finance through Multilateral Development Banks, climate finance efforts must be recentred on delivering climate justiceWorld Bank Board destroys trust in its accountability systemUS pushes World Bank climate target to the brinkScoop: developing country blocs push World Bank to extend climate planStructural adjustment: damages, reparations and pathways to non-recurrenceThe IMF presence and grey-listingCritical minerals and the new development dilemma: What the WBG’s new strategy must get rightCAO closure of Tata Mundra case sends chilling message to project-affected communities in search of justiceV20 communiqué analysis Annual Meetings 2025What the west can do to stop the global south being strangled by debtTangguh LNG: Big project, huge risksIMF lending returns to low levels while the PBOC continues as the largest provider of currency swaps: Insights from the updated Global Financial Safety Net TrackerForeign aid is in freefall – but wealthy nations can still help fill widening finance gapsOur climate vulnerable countries are drowning in debt paymentsUS ignored as Sevilla ‘financing for development’ outcome is adopted by consensusPeer-to-peer lending: China’s overseas development finance pivots to national and regional development banksNew data reveal World Bank DPF ‘climate finance’ carries strong private sector bias, undermining a just transitionDemanding accountability, reparations, and structural transformation: A primer on the Fourth International Conference on Financing for DevelopmentWorld Bank’s land reform agenda faces ‘climate-washing’ allegations ahead of key conferenceV20 communiqué analysis Spring Meetings 2025: amid attacks on climate action, climate vulnerable countries once again highlight urgent need to step back from the brink