Implementation in full of the independent review of IFC, MIGA and CAO is essential if institutions are to meet persistent accountability and remedy gaps.
Social services
Social services
Analysis
World Bank funded $17.3 million Uganda reproductive health voucher PPP fails to reach the poorest women
World Bank backs private sector voucher project in Uganda as poorest women lose out.
Social services
News
World Bank loan to India promotes private sector in education as millions of children out of school
World Bank Indian education loan causes controversy over private sector provisions.
Conditionality
Background
Fiscal space for universal health and social protection post Covid-19 pandemic: How to prevent austerity
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum Session on 2 October.
Social services
News
World Bank abandons pandemic bond instrument after disastrous Covid-19 response
World Bank’s pandemic bond instrument scrapped after high visibility Covid-19 failure
Social services
Background
World Bank Group’s ‘Maximizing Finance for Development’ in times of Covid-19
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.
Finance
Analysis
The IMF and World Bank-led Covid-19 recovery: ‘Building back better’ or locking in broken policies?
Early evidence suggests IMF programmes are maintaining long-term fiscal consolidation targets, while World Bank further continues Maximizing Finance for Development narrative amidst Covid-19 crisis.
Conditionality
Analysis
The IMF’s role in the devastating impacts of Covid-19 – the case of Ecuador
IMF-backed austerity measures starved health sector prior to pandemic, yet Fund continues to prescribe devastating long-term fiscal consolidation.
Social services
News
The World Bank, Covid-19 and public education: two steps forward one step back
World Bank’s new report on education and Covid-19 contrasts with IFC announcement on freezing private school investments.
Finance
Analysis
World Bank and IMF response to debt crisis undermines women’s rights
25 years after Beijing Declaration, austerity and privatisation still modus operandi of Bretton Woods Institutions at the cost of women's rights.