Open letter calls for an end to IMF surcharges that penalise middle-income countries, limit their capacity to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet their human rights obligations.
Latin America & Caribbean
Environment
News
World Bank's oil revenue outlook for Guyana at odds with climate action
Bank’s lofty projections for oil-based growth contradict more sober estimates that account for uncertainty in sector.
IFI governance
Analysis
IMFC communiqué analysis – Spring Meetings 2021
Analysis of the IMFC communiqué published on 8 April from the 2021 World Bank and IMF virtual Spring Meetings.
IFI governance
Analysis
G24 communiqué analysis – Spring Meetings 2021
Analysis of the G24 communiqué released on 5 April from the 2021 virtual World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.
Social services
Background
Education financing to reach the most marginalised: Challenges and solutions during COVID-19 response and recovery
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum session on 31 March 2021.
Finance
Background
Development Policy Finance: Critical concerns surrounding accountability and outcomes for people and the climate
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 26 March.
IFI governance
Background
An economic future for whom? The Cascade/MFD and recovery
Notes from the virtual Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum on 25 March 2021.
Finance
Background
A People’s Recovery: Ensuring progressive fiscal measures for a feminist and just pandemic recovery
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 24 March.
Rights
Analysis
Latin American Indigenous Peoples call on World Bank to safeguard their rights
Latin American Indigenous Peoples call on the World Bank to safeguard their rights and ensure its programmes are based on their own proposals.
Infrastructure
News
World Bank technical assistance and policy lending lead to Jamaica gas lock-in
Bank support facilitated $1 billion in private investment in LNG on the island, despite the green credentials of natural gas being widely debunked.
Finance
News
IMF debt sustainability review lacking in ambition and transparency
New methodology fails to meet long-standing civil society calls to put needs of people before debt service.
Finance
News
New Bolivian government returns “irregular and onerous” IMF loan
Government states that $346 million loan jeopardised “the country’s sovereignty and economic interests.”
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.
1 October 2024