Forthcoming research from ActionAid International shows IMF’s dogmatic support for public sector wage bill cuts continues.
Bill withdrawn after allegations of misconduct, as Nigerian civil society mobilises against water privatisation.
The world awaits to see whether Trump’s defeat will result in the end of the 'America First' approach and a democratisation of the IMF and World Bank and the multilateral system.
As the inability of Bank and Fund to adapt their policies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic becomes more evident, hope turns to the UN system and a radical restructure of the global international financial architecture.
World Bank backs private sector voucher project in Uganda as poorest women lose out.
World Bank Indian education loan causes controversy over private sector provisions.
World Bank’s new report on education and Covid-19 contrasts with IFC announcement on freezing private school investments.
25 years after Beijing Declaration, austerity and privatisation still modus operandi of Bretton Woods Institutions at the cost of women's rights.
The WB financed developing countries’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is working to boost access to vaccines. In this context, recent WB publications highlight the centrality of public finance for healthcare systems. This panel aims to facilitate a dialogue on reimagining health care systems, central to a just and equitable recovery.
World Bank President comes out against temporarily waiving intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum session on 31 March 2021.
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum event on March 26.
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 24 March.
World Bank plans to publish latest DBR in March and undertake an external review of the report’s methodology.
World Bank’s pandemic bond instrument scrapped after high visibility Covid-19 failure
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum at the 2020 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 5 October session on the World Bank's 'Maximizing Finance for Development' and the Covid-19 response.
