Location: Latin America & Caribbean

V20 communiqué analysis Spring Meetings 2024: Climate vulnerable countries issue call to action, as net-negative flows result in ‘millions in, billions out’ amid growing debt burdensAgriculture, financialization, and gender: Exploring the World Bank’s response to interlinked phenomenaThe future of Special Drawing Rights as a development finance tool: What’s next?Civil society raises concerns about Resilience and Sustainability Trust’s green conditionality as Fund conducts interim reviewGambling with the planet’s future? World Bank Development Policy Finance, ‘green’ conditionality, and the push for a private-led energy transitionNew book addresses shortcomings of traditional approaches to debt and economics V20 communiqué analysis Annual Meetings 2023: Climate vulnerable countries demand more voice at Bretton Woods InstitutionsBalancing ambitions and bridging divides at multilateral development banksWorld Bank’s reliance on private capital to finance green transition in low- and middle-income countries risks falling flatIMF acknowledges capital controls have helped Argentine economyHonduras threatens ICSID withdrawal over $11 billion ‘neo-colonial’ special economic zone claimVoices of the Global South: Taxation and polycrisisAgainst regressive taxes and austerity: IMF and World Bank must pivot tax policies to support a just and green transitionResilience and Sustainability Trust’s first loans promote climate PPPs, raising concerns they may create fiscal risksWorld Bank’s financial inclusion agenda blind to growing gendered over-indebtednessIMF continues to disregard UN Human Rights Commission concerns about its surcharge policyA different ‘evolution roadmap’: Havana conference calls for changes in world order hierarchyBridgetown Initiative calls for new Global Climate Mitigation Trust financed via Special Drawing RightsNew IMF gender strategy’s potential to catalyse change undermined by austerity and problematic mission creepA new SDR allocation: Combatting deepening fragility concerns