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Finance

Analysis

Latest IMF gender research: Making the economy work for women, or women work for the economy?

IMF gender research direction shifts away from macroeconomic drivers of gender inequality.

13 July 2021

IFI governance

Analysis

Great Expectations a year on: IMF moving the needle on inequality but not yet the gear

One year after Oxfam study, IMF making progress on inequality agenda but still needs a fundamental shift

28 September 2018 | Guest analysis

Conditionality

Analysis

Pro-poor or anti-poor? The World Bank and IMF’s approach to social protection

Stephen Kidd critiques Bretton Woods Institutions' approach to targeted social protection systems, arguing the poor lose out the most.

28 March 2018 | Briefings
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Failure to lend to Venezuela and Iran once again raises questions around IMF’s political neutrality

IMF fails to respond to loan requests from Iran and Venezula as they struggle to respond to increasing Covid-19 cases and deaths.

16 July 2020

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Iran moves to normalise relations with World Bank

Despite initiating World Bank loan repayments , and having its status upgraded by the Bank, Iran's politicians continue to reinforce the harmful impact of sanctions on the country's economy.

5 November 2013

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World Bank to back Iran dam

The World Bank plans to back a dam in Mazandaran province, Iran.

25 March 2002
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8 May 2020

One cool way the US could help developing countries survive the Covid-19 economic fallout

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8 April 2020

US will block Iran’s $5 billion IMF loan bid to fight virus

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16 January 2020

From Chile to Hong Kong, the world saw a lot of protests in 2019. Here’s why that trend is going to continue

Time

Conditionality

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23 January 2018

Role of IMF-backed elimination of universal social protection in protests

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