Environment
News
Albanese government urged to push international banks to stop funding fossil fuel development
1 June 2023
A roundup of key news and critical viewpoints published about the World Bank and IMF
IFI governance
News
Africa Liberation Day 2023 statement
Social services
Analysis
Stand up for inclusive public services
Finance
News
African ministers call for reforms of IMF’s special drawing rights system
Finance
Analysis
Report reveals the challenges and risks of the growing indebtedness in Global South countries
Finance
Analysis
Building a better SDR
Finance
Analysis
Reparations as a pathway to decolonisation
Finance
News
G7 owes huge $13 trillion debt to Global South
Finance
News
We still need a debt jubilee: 25 years on from the Birmingham human chain
IFI governance
Analysis
The time is now: what the World Bank’s (R)evolution Roadmap should look like
Conditionality
Analysis
Caught in the IMF trap: Pakistan’s perennial predicament
Accountability
Analysis
A community is left to pay a hefty price for the IFC to “learn free lessons”
Accountability
News
World Bank project complaints plagued by fear of reprisal
IFI governance
Analysis
Reforming the IMF
Environment
Analysis
The dangerously optimistic global climate finance agenda: why blended financing and domestic resource mobilization won’t help close the climate finance gap
IFI governance
News
An unbelievable truth: The World Bank approves US nominated Ajay Banga as president of World Bank
Featured briefings
6 April 2023
World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2023
5 April 2023
The IMF at the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The need for governance reform
As the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is time the IMF’s shareholders use the opportunities provided by the anniversary and growing calls for reforms to the international financial architecture to redesign the IMF’s governance structures and programmes to ensure they are consistent with the commitments outlined in 1948 and with international human rights law.
5 April 2023
The global financial architecture and the international debt crisis: An urgent call for reform
Influence of unreformed international financial institutions and creditor interests in debt solutions in low- and middle-income countries plagued by delay and ineffective when undertaken.