New IMF gender guidance opportunity for civil society to keep its staff to account.
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New IMF working paper establishes macro-criticality of unpaid care work but remains blind to Fund’s negative policy impacts on women and girls.
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IMF’s recognition of unpaid care work undermined by its own harmful policy advice
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Critical gender analysis of Bank's Development Policy Financing.
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The World Bank and gender equality
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The World Bank’s recent gender equality approach constitutes an attempt at establishing a consensus over the regulation of the economy.
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The World Bank’s role in crafting a neoliberal hegemony with a feminist face
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World Bank’s women entrepreneur initiatives just “smoke and mirrors”
As We-Fi launches regional West Africa summit, feminists criticise narrow focus of women entrepreneur initiatives, while funding for women’s rights is in decline.
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Gender-Just Macroeconomics II
BWP's Gender and Macroeconomics project launches a booklet on Gender-Just Macroeconomics; the World Bank’s privatisation push
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The IMF and Gender Equality: Operationalising Change
Latest IMF guidance on gender issues raises more questions than answers as it opens the door to impact assessments and alternative macro policies.
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Bretton Woods Institutions’ instrumental gender approach ignores structural elephant in the room
IMF and World Bank continue to undermine gender equality through bulk of macroeconomic policy advice.
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#MeToo arrives at World Bank as it publishes Gender-Based Violence Action Plan
World Bank publishes GBV Action Plan for developing-country projects, while internal sexual harassment cases from 1980s are brought to World Bank Ombudsman.
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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 IMF, Gender Equality and Labour
BWP briefing explores IMF's labour market policies in the context of women in the informal economy and suggests they will not contribute to decreasing inequalities.
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Advancing a feminist approach to women's economic inequality
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum panel event on 16 October on women's economic inequality and macroeconomic policy.
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Cutting to the core: Rethinking the IMF’s way of doing business to tackle gender inequalities
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum panel event on 17 October on the IMF’s approach to gender.
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Civil society left unconvinced as World Bank promotes PPPs as tool for gender equality
The World Bank launches a new primer on PPPs and gender equality as civil society and women’s rights groups highlight concerns around risks and harmful impacts to gender equality and sustainable development.
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We-Fi's roll-out continues to ignore long-standing feminist concerns
Civil society remains concerned that World Bank's We-Fi fund excludes most marginalised women.
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Sexual orientation & gender identity – considering risk mitigation within World Bank programming
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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.
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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.
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Making Tax Work for Women's Rights
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Keeping the IMF accountable to women's rights and gender equality at the national level
New IMF gender guidance opportunity for civil society to keep its staff to account.
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