IMF programme raises questions over unconstitutional attack on workers' rights.
Conditionality
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Fund publishes social spending strategy, civil society deems outcome too little too late.
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Conditionality
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IMF framework on social spending out of step with international standards
Gender
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Latest IMF guidance on gender issues raises more questions than answers as it opens the door to impact assessments and alternative macro policies.
Gender
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The IMF and Gender Equality: Operationalising Change
Conditionality
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As Jordan is engulfed in social unrest and political upheaval, questions are raised around the relationship between IMF conditionality and trends in instability.
Conditionality
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The political cost of IMF programmes
Conditionality
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Structural adjustment is dead, long live structural adjustment
As Fund publishes its first comprehensive review of conditionality since the financial crisis, questions arise about the Fund's capacity to create economic stability and the rise of structural conditions.
Conditionality
Commentary
Unsustainable? The IMF’s approach to the Sustainable Development Goals
As the IMF publishes new SDG site, meaningful policy realignment remains lacking while business-as-usual continues at IMF.
Conditionality
Commentary
Strikes overturn wage cuts, but IMF blindness risks ruining Tunisia
General Secretary of Tunisia's largest trade union calls for an overhaul of the IMF's approach to bring about socially just expansionary policies, after strikes overturn IMF-backed wage bill
Finance
Analysis
The IMF in Argentina: Can an old dog learn new tricks?
As IMF increases Argentina loan, its policies continue to ignore root causes of crisis with predictable impacts for Argentinians
Accountability
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Ukraine: Between a rock and IMF conditionality
Alarm bells ringing as Ukraine struggles to meet IMF conditionality on fuel prices and anti-corruption approach criticised
Finance
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Greece exits loan programme as impacts of Troika-led austerity are revealed
As Greece exits eight-year loan programme from the Troika, new study shines light on damaging impact of Troika-imposed austerity on country’s health outcomes.
Conditionality
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Bad news for Argentina: The cruel IMF is back
As Argentina agrees to a $50 billion IMF loan, the ghost of loans past lingers, as protests erupt and strikes begin.
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Conditionality
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3 October 2019
Civil unrest in Zimbabwe amid IMF Staff Monitored Programme
Fears of further clampdown on protesters emerge as Zimbabwe implements Fund-backed economic reforms.
Conditionality
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7 December 2017
New IMF conditionality database launched
Team of UK academics launch new, freely available IMF conditionality database.
Finance
Background
16 April 2019 | Minutes
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes: Shifting the IFI Narrative to Progressive Gender-just Taxation
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.
Conditionality
Background
16 April 2019 | Minutes
Austerity and the right to health - the IMF’s role in expanding fiscal space for public spending
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 10 April on the incoherence between IMF-backed austerity policies, via loan conditionality and policy advice, and the realization of the right to health.
Conditionality
News
27 September 2017
BWP edited volume on IMF’s policy impacts on gender equality
The Bretton Woods Project publishes edited volume on the impacts of IMF macroeconomic policies on women's rights and gender equality.
Conditionality
News
3 July 2017
Suriname walks away from IMF conditionalities
The government of Suriname has cancelled its loan programme with the IMF, claiming its conditionalities were too much to bear for its citizens.
Conditionality
Background
20 April 2017 | Minutes
The IMF and World Bank policies and the Arab world’s transition economies
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum Session at the 2017 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings on IMF and World Bank programmes in the MENA Region.
Conditionality
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7 April 2017
New IMF Mongolia deal: extracting sovereignty
IMF reaches new loan agreement with Mongolia, amidst civil society concerns about impacts on Mongolian people.
