Bretton Woods Project

New BWP research finds the Word Bank's approach to Paris alignment is being used to a significant extent to impose ‘green conditionalities' on borrowing countries, especially in the Global Sout...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/10/year-one-of-world-bank-paris-agreement-alignment-in-the-energy-sector-green-conditionality-dwarfs-green-investments/

Gender IFI Summer School, brings together regional and global organisations working to advance economic justice issues, particularly from a feminist perspective, to discuss the IFIs’ impact on ...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/09/gender-ifi-summer-school-2024/

As the World Bank and IMF celebrate their 80th anniversary in 2024, on 10th July the Bretton Woods Project, together with the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, were joined by a distinguished ...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/the-bretton-woods-institutions-at-80-where-do-we-go-from-here/

IMF board's lukewarm endorsement of SDR rechanneling through MDBs stands in stark contrast to continued calls from Global South governments for additional SDR allocations, amid growing debt crisi...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/imf-boards-reluctance-leaves-special-drawing-rights-as-an-underused-tool-in-funds-toolbox/

Understanding the Bank’s chequered history with public, community and civil society participation is key for understanding what is at stake and what to do next. The post Is the World Bank rol...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/is-the-world-bank-rolling-back-commitments-to-citizen-and-civil-society-engagement-again/

More debt without tackling the political sources of Egypt’s economic problems means a deepening of the crisis. The post Economics is political: the IMF’s programme in Egypt can’t succeed ...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/economics-is-political-egypts-imf-programme-cant-succeed-without-reforming-both/

The IMF’s surcharges review presents a golden opportunity to eliminate these harmful and counterproductive fees. The post No false solutions: IMF surcharges must go appeared first on Bretton...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/no-false-solutions-imf-surcharges-must-go/

Gender Guidance note offers non-mandatory advice to staff on mainstreaming gender but integration of existing in-depth critiques from feminists and civil society needed to tackle gender inequalit...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/imfs-interim-guidance-note-on-mainstreaming-gender-fails-to-address-negative-gendered-impacts-of-imf-austerity/

The unfolding debt crisis threatens IDA’s support for 75 low-income countries, without replenishment of grant resources. The post ‘Worst ever’ debt crisis puts IDA’s financial model at ...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/worst-ever-debt-crisis-puts-idas-financial-model-at-risk-underscoring-need-for-ambitious-donor-contributions-to-ida21-replenishment/

Pakistan on track to receive its 24th loan from the IMF after the lender disbursed the last tranche of the country’s latest $3 billion programme. The post Pakistan’s debt crisis fuelled by ...

https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2024/07/pakistans-debt-crisis-fuelled-by-more-imf-loans/