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International

2023 World Bank Annual Meetings. Development Committee Meeting.

Finance

Background

The World Bank shareholding review – reform or ritual?

Focusing on the 2025 Shareholding Review, this Inside the Institutions explores power asymmetries within the World Bank and growing calls for equitable, transparent and accountable governance reform.

15 July 2025 | Inside the institutions
Illustration showing a hand trying to break a chain with a hammer, while another hand stops it

Finance

Analysis

Civil society demands unconditional debt relief in Jubilee year

In critical Jubilee year, civil society and Global South nations called for debt relief and UN-led debt workout mechanism at FfD4

15 July 2025
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva meets Argentina's President, Javier Milei at IMF headquarters in Washington D.C on February 20th 2025. Photo: IMF Photo /Kim Haughton

Finance

Commentary

IMF and Milei - partners in Argentina's neoliberal autocracy

After successive programme failures, new Argentina IMF programme is complicit in Milei government’s contravention of national and human rights laws through its pursuit of autocratic and neoliberal policies.

15 July 2025 | Guest comment
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva meets Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe at the 2024 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2024. Photo: IMF Photo/Allison Shelley

Finance

Analysis

Sri Lanka and the IMF: Another stark example of the need for urgent debt restructure reform

After defaulting in 2022, Sri Lanka has entered its 17th IMF programme, resulting in severe socially and economically damaging austerity, as IMF’s inadequate debt sustainability analysis and approach continue to fail to address the root causes of the country’s cyclical debt problems.

15 July 2025 | Guest analysis

Infrastructure

Analysis

Will the World Bank be a partner for a just energy transition in developing countries?

As renewable energy finance shifts from China to the World Bank, whether the Bank can be a partner for a just energy transition depends on three areas: strong environmental and social oversight, avoiding a new resource curse in minerals and debt relief during crises.

15 July 2025 | At Issue
Demonstration opposing the practices of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on Sunday, April 26, 2009.

Finance

Analysis

The IMF’s upcoming surveillance review: In an ever more urgent global context, the Fund must learn lessons from its past failures to reform

The IMF’s Comprehensive Surveillance Review takes place this year in a global context in which it is more pressing than ever to ensure that countries have the ability to take real action on climate change and rising social inequality.

15 July 2025
Photo showing an event during the World Bank Group & IMF Spring Meetings 2025. Jobs - The Path to Prosperity. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank.

Private Sector

News

From billions to nowhere: Ajay Banga’s development mirage

With scant data, high investor protections and little benefit to low-income countries, the Bank’s 'new' private sector development approach risks entrenching inequality under the guise of development.

15 July 2025
ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development and the Fourth Session of the Preparatory Committee for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, 30 April 2025. Photo: IISD/ENB/Tallash Kantai

Finance

News

As Global North blocks progressive reforms at FfD4, World Bank’s failed private sector approach gains traction

As Global North obstructs global finance and debt architecture reforms proposed at FfD4, the World Bank’s failed “billions to trillions” approach continues to gain prominence.

15 July 2025
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Other news

Rights

News

World Bank due to renew Fragility, Conflict and Violence Strategy in 2025

As the World Bank's current Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) Strategy (2020-2025) expires this year, a consultation on the new strategy is expected to take place soon.

15 July 2025

Infrastructure

News

World Bank energy strategy review considers reversing phaseout of support for gas production

As World Bank pushes to provide electricity to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 under Mission 300, it considers lifting ban on support for gas production.

15 July 2025
Scenes inside and around the International Monetary Fund.

Finance

News

IMF surveillance scanner to be launched this summer

The scanner is designed to enable civil society groups to find key themes in IMF policy and better track the political implications of its recommendations in the areas of fiscal policy, austerity, gender, tax, climate, social protection and financialisaton.

15 July 2025 | Project news

IFI governance

Background

Mission 300: The high-stakes pursuit of energy transition in Africa

Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 25 April 2025, titled "Mission 300: The high-stakes pursuit of energy transition in Africa"

25 April 2025 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

Missing labour: Fixing the Fund’s approach to the gendered division of labour

Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum on Thursday the 24th of April titled 'Missing labour: Fixing the Fund’s approach to the gendered division of labour'

24 April 2025 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

IFC Sustainability Framework Review: a pivotal opportunity to protect human rights and the environment

Notes from the 24 April Civil Society Policy Forum session, titled IFC Sustainability Framework Review: a pivotal opportunity to protect human rights and the environment.

24 April 2025 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

Hidden debt: Tackling grand corruption in debt management to safeguard financing for development

Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum on 23 April 2025 titled 'Hidden debt: tackling grand corruption in debt management to safeguard financing for development'.

23 April 2025 | Minutes

IFI governance

Background

Catalyzing climate finance in fragile contexts - What’s being done and what still needs doing?

Notes from the 23 April Civil Society Policy Forum session titled “Catalyzing climate finance in fragile contexts - What’s being done and what still needs doing?”

23 April 2025 | Minutes
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