Request for critical IMF and World Bank resources of 2017.
Knowledge
Social services
News
WDR on governance: paradigm shift or cosmetic procedure?
World Bank’s 2017 World Development Report on governance introduced the importance of politics, but its impact has been questioned.
Knowledge
Background
World Bank’s Doing Business report
This Inside the Institutions looks at the Doing Business report and retraces key steps in its history and development, explains how ratings are calculated and outlines some of the main criticisms regarding its methodology and ideological background.
Knowledge
News
Concerns over World Bank's WDR on education
CSOs raise concerns about content and consultation process of World Bank World Development Report 2018 on education.
Knowledge
Analysis
The World Bank's updated international poverty line, a case of poor measurement?
World Bank updates the International Poverty Line and claims a continued decrease in numbers of poor, but long-standing questions about the methodology used and whether the instrument is fit for purpose persist.
Social services
Analysis
PPPs as a model for development: An analysis of the African context
Public-private partnerships are pushed in Africa, but the risks and costs must be fully understood and minimised, including the impact on the poor.
Knowledge
Background
Lurking behind plummeting oil prices: Advancing structural adjustment
Notes from a meeting at the IMF/World Bank CSO Forum at the 2015 Annual meetings, focusing on macroeconomic challenges for the MENA region.
Knowledge
News
WDR 2015: Mind over matter
Behavioural economics is the basis for the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report but is criticised for ignoring the impact of power and politics.
Rights
Analysis
The IMF’s chameleon-policies on unions are changing colours
New IMF research has shown the positive impact of trade unions have on reducing income inequality, however, the Fund's own European austerity programmes indicate that the IMF ignores its own evidence.
Conditionality
Commentary
The Arab world’s subsidy nightmare: pondering alternatives
For decades, the Arab region has embarked on a series of IMF-prescribed energy subsidy reforms, which have contributed to increased poverty levels.
