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EurodadBriefingsFinance
False and distracting finance solutions: Debt and climate mini briefs
5 November 2025
EurodadAnalysisEnvironment
COP 30 must tackle the debt trap and shortfall in public finance to deliver a Just Transition
4 November 2025
RecourseAnalysisEnvironment
The MDBs’ growing role in climate finance: All that glitters is not gold
3 November 2025

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ActionAid InternationalAnalysisEnvironment
Climate finance for just transition: How the finance flows
3 November 2025
MENAFemCommentaryIFI governance
Feminist reflections on the 2025 IMF–World Bank annual meetings: A time for (R)evolution – who leads?
3 November 2025
PoliticoNewsFinance
IMF support for Ukraine hinges on Russian assets loan, EU warns
3 November 2025
MENAFemCommentary
Feminist Reflections On The 2025 IMF–World Bank annual meetings: Recalibrating the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
3 November 2025
The StarAnalysisEnvironment
The deadly hypocrisy of fossil fuel finance in Africa
3 November 2025
MenaFem MovementBlogIFI governance
Feminist reflections on the 2025 IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings: Resisting austerity, reclaiming justice
30 October 2025
Project SyndicateAnalysisFinance
How Trump could win over the developing world
27 October 2025