Knowledge
Background
6 December 2017
Call for critical resources on World Bank and IMF for 2017
Request for critical IMF and World Bank resources of 2017.
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Finance
News
6 December 2017
IMF and Bank “intensifying” tax work: Possible progress or consolidating control?
The World Bank and IMF are intensifying their work on tax under the Platform for Collaboration on Tax, yet civil society is cautious about embracing tax policy advice coming from the Bretton Woods Institutions.
Finance
Analysis
6 December 2017 | Guest analysis
Debt sustainability review: Tinkering around the edges while crises loom
Despite making some positive changes, the IMF and World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework review has ignored fundamental issues, as risk of new crises persist.
Accountability
News
6 December 2017
World Bank and IMF civil society working group election results announced
The members of the new permanent working group for the Civil Society Policy Forum have been announced.
Social services
Analysis
30 November 2017 | At Issue
A critical analysis of the World Bank's World Development Report on education
While the World Development Report (WDR) 2018 on education has some redeeming features, it is part of the Bank's longstanding very narrow view of education, and is silent on education financing.
IFI governance
Analysis
18 October 2017
Annual Meetings wrap-up: Kim turns to bankrupt ideas, while IMF tries to undo inequality it doesn't admit it helped cause
BWP's analysis of this year's IMF and World Bank annual meetings; hopeful growth forecasts tampered by medium-term concerns, with US anti-multilateralism finally hitting Bank and Fund.
IFI governance
Analysis
18 October 2017
Development Committee communiqué analysis: Embracing the cascade in response to turbulent times
BWP analysis of the Development Committee Communiqué issued on 14 October, as part of this year's World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings.
IFI governance
Analysis
18 October 2017
IMFC communiqué analysis: Carpe diem, or else…
Analysis of the IMFC communiqué, issued on 14 October, from the 2017 World Bank-IMF annual meetings, Washington DC.
IFI governance
Analysis
17 October 2017
G24 communiqué analysis: “managing the impact of developments in the global economy”
BWP analysis of the G24 communiqué, issued on 12 October, from the 2017 World Bank-IMF annual meetings, Washington DC.
IFI governance
Background
13 October 2017 | Minutes
Great expectations: Is the IMF turning words into action on inequality?
Notes from the 2017 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings session on the IMF's approach to inequality, 13 October.
IFI governance
Background
12 October 2017 | Minutes
Diagnosing governance challenges in the extractive sector: The Resource Governance Index and beyond
Notes from the 2017 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum session on the challenges of effective governance of the oil, gas and mining sectors in resource-rich countries.
Gender
Background
11 October 2017 | Minutes
Contradicting commitments: Why fiscal space matters for women and work
Notes from the 2017 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings session on the IMF's approach to fiscal space, women and work, 11 October
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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.