Environment
Analysis
Powering progress? The World Bank's role in delivering equitable and sustainable energy solutions through IDA21
3 December 2024
A roundup of key news and critical viewpoints published about the World Bank and IMF
Conditionality
Analysis
IDA21: A missed opportunity for transformative development in the Global South
Infrastructure
News
Why gas is not the solution for Africa: “Mission 300” must embrace sustainable energy for all
Finance
Analysis
Civil society feedback to draft World Bank Group’s IDA21 replenishment report
Conditionality
Analysis
How neoliberalism has wielded ‘corruption’ to privatise life in Africa
Trade
Analysis
Guaranteeing the future? The role of guarantees in development and climate finance
Environment
Analysis
The IMF and the World Bank must be abolished to save the planet
Environment
Analysis
Developed countries hide behind MDBs to avoid their responsibility to pay up
Environment
News
Civil society groups: climate funding useless if it is not on target
Environment
Analysis
COP29 and the NCQG: linking climate, debt and gender justice
Finance
Analysis
A golden opportunity: selling a small share of the IMF’s gold reserves to replenish the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust
Environment
Analysis
Report: What MDB climate finance is actually being spent on and where
Environment
News
MDBs cannot be climate bankers while still being fossil fuel bankers
Featured briefings
16 October 2024
The Bretton Woods Observer: Autumn 2024
16 October 2024
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.
16 October 2024
Sustainable development requires sustainable finance: why local currency financing is part of the solution
Multilateral development banks can reduce their dependence on hard currency lending and make local currency financing a central element of their developmental mandate.