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

One year after Oxfam study, IMF making progress on inequality agenda but still needs a fundamental shift
Originally created to help the poor escape poverty and deprivation, the World Bank became the most important advocate for the commercialised microcredit model. Yet, critics argued it undermined the chances of sustainable and equitable development to create a poverty trap of historic proportions.
The UN expert on foreign debt has published a report critical of IMF and World Bank policies related to labour rights, claiming that the evidence does not support their pproach.
A revised Clean Technology Fund (CTF) pipeline management and cancellation policy has been approved. A document outlining further details on the proposed “CTF 2.0” will be discussed. Approval for reallocation of funds for a Morocco project was challenged by Germany and the decision postponed.
New edition of the Bretton Woods Project's biannual Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) Monitor, including an update on the Green Climate Fund, published to coincide with the World Bank-hosted CIFs trust fund committee meetings.
New edition of the Bretton Woods Project's biannual Climate Investment Fund (CIFs) Monitor, published to coincide with the World Bank-hosted CIFs trust fund committee meetings.
The upcoming Clean Technology Fund (CTF) resource shortfall continues to raise concerns. A proposal for “CTF 2.0” will be discussed, including two proposed modalities: CTF Green Markets and the Risk Mitigation Facility. Concerns were raised over safeguards for a geothermal energy project in Indonesia.
The more things change the more they stay the same... Infographic illustrates findings of new report on IMF Policy in the MENA Region.
Marrakesh was due to host 2021 meetings prior to announcement.
BWP report finds few signs of IMF policy-change in the MENA region post 2011.
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 12 April on the changing international tax landscape from a feminist perspective and challenging IFIs’ role in shaping it at the World Bank and IMF's 2019 Spring Meetings.
A World Bank blog about the benefits of private schooling has been contravened by a UN committee and heavily criticised by civil society
Sponsors: Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND); Bretton Woods Project; Middle East Task Force of…
The IMF facilities review reveals a lack of demand for post 2008 financial crisis lending instruments.
New America Foundation civil society event on subsidy reform in Arab countries, held in the civil society forum of the 2013 IMF/World Bank annual meetings
Minutes from a civil society event on civil society consultations in the health sector at the WB/IMF annual meetings.