World Bank President comes out against temporarily waiving intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines
Social services
Social services
Background
Education financing to reach the most marginalised: Challenges and solutions during COVID-19 response and recovery
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum session on 31 March 2021.
Social services
Background
The role of the World Bank in ensuring universal and equitable COVID-19 vaccines for all
Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum event on March 26.
IFI governance
Background
An economic future for whom? The Cascade/MFD and recovery
Notes from the virtual Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum on 25 March 2021.
Social services
Background
Universal access to healthcare: Lessons learned from Public-Private Partnerships
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 24 March.
Social services
Analysis
World Bank support for Covid-19 vaccination fails to ensure equitable access
World Bank’s Covid-19 vaccination programme contributes to global response but fails to ensure free access to vaccines and healthcare during the pandemic.
Social services
News
World Bank-backed water bill sparks anti-privatisation movement in Nigeria
Bill withdrawn after allegations of misconduct, as Nigerian civil society mobilises against water privatisation.
IFI governance
Analysis
Annual Meetings 2020 Preamble: IMF and World Bank frontload austerity and privatisation in Covid-19 recovery, while the world calls for more inclusive multilateralism
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.
Knowledge
News
Doing Business Report to be published after temporary suspension over data irregularities
World Bank plans to publish latest DBR in March and undertake an external review of the report’s methodology.
Accountability
Analysis
IFC and MIGA must ‘walk the accountability walk’ on the road mapped by independent review
Implementation in full of the independent review of IFC, MIGA and CAO is essential if institutions are to meet persistent accountability and remedy gaps.
