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We scrutinise and influence the World Bank and the IMF, with a focus on the environment, gender equality, democratic governance and financialisation.

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#ICYMI : Did you miss any CSPF sessions at the #WBMeeting #IMFMeetings this year?

As part of our #BWDispatch Annuals 2025, we just published notes from featured sessions. Check it out👇

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World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2025
Geopolitical tensions and poor economic prospects strain social and political stability, adding to the profound challenges to multilateralism.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Bertha Argueta, Rebecca Thissen and Claire O’Manique argue that #debtjustice and public finance are key to kickstarting a #JustTransition #COP30

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COP 30 must tackle the debt trap and shortfall in public finance to deliver a Just Transition
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November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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New in #BWObserver Autumn 25: World Bank’s 2020-25 #FragilityConflict&Violence strategy nears end yet #civilsociety still await news of public consultation timeline

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Civil society awaits Bank’s Fragility, Conflict & Violence strategy consultation opportunity
Despite Bank’s existing FCV strategy expiring this year, civil society still await announcement of public consultation on its replacement.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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New in #BWObserver Autumn25: Protests erupt in Angola as government, at behest of IMF and World Bank, cuts fuel subsidies amid high debt and tight fiscal space.

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Mass protests erupt in Angola following IMF-backed fuel subsidy removals
Civil society warns that without wider debt relief removing consumer subsidies simply shifts the burden onto the poor.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The IMF and World Bank #AM2025 declared "uncertainty" the new normal, amid spectacle showcasing US and private capital interests.

Civil society was sidelined, austerity remains the prescription and genuine reform is missing.

Read our Annuals 2025 Wrap-up👇
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Annual Meetings 2025 Wrap-up: IMF and World Bank declare uncertainty the “new normal” amid spectacle showcasing US and private capital interests
Annual Meetings showcased the BWIs’ efforts to prove their loyalty to the current US administration and prioritise private capital, even as multilateralism erodes and civil society space shrinks.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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After G20 #IMFMeetings statement on debt falls flat, civil society calls for urgent action, including 'a change to the legal framework for private sector debt, much of which is issued under English law'

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How the west can stop the global south being strangled by debt | Heather Stewart
Labour would do well to remember its manifesto promise to revive Britain’s global leadership on development
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October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Despite escalating economic costs of climate impacts and primacy of greentech in geopolitical tensions, US insists climate not ‘core’ to IMF’s work – potentially deepening the Fund’s crisis of legitimacy

More in our #BWObserver Autumn 25👉 tinyurl.com/IMFClimateFu...

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Future of IMF’s climate work uncertain, as climate crisis intensifies
US hostility to IMF’s climate work risks further exacerbating macroeconomic fallout from climate crisis.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Join us today at #WBMeetings: How Can DPFs Promote Equitable Energy Access and Accomplish Climate Objectives?

Some additional research from us on the World Bank's approach to DPFs: www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/06/new-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#Tomorrow at #WBMeetings join us for a CSPF panel on DPF, one of the main tools the World Bank uses to deliver mitigation and adaptation - how is the Bank using it and how can it be improved?👇

📅 Fri 17 Oct, 11-12:30 DC
📍 WB I 2-220
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CSPF: How Can DPFs Promote Equitable Energy Access and Accomplish Climate Objectives? DFs are one of the main tools that the Bank uses to deliver mitigation and adaptation outcomes to its member countries. This session will explore how DFs are currently used to support countries' national climate goals and energy transitions, how they are assessed and accounted for, and how they can be improved. The session will also reflect on recent DPF examples, identifying opportunities for improving climate integration and civil society participation in future operations. Friday, October 17, 2025 11:00am-12:30pm Eastern Room I 2-220 World Bank I Building Moderator Katelyn Gallagher Policy Director Bank Information Center Valerie Hickey Global Director for Climate Change World Bank Wilfried Kouame Senior Economist for Gambia and Senegal World Bank Jon Sward Environment Project Manager The Bretton Woods Project Nadishani Perera Southern Asia Consultant Partnership for Transparency Fund
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Tune in today for a #IMFmeetings CSPF event on IMF's Comprehensive Surveillance Review and economic sustainability, with experts from civil society organisations and
IMF

📅 11-12:30 DC
📍IMF HQ2-03B-768B
Zoom: imf.zoom.us/j/9308929040...

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October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Tomorrow at #IMFmeetings joins us for a CSPF on IMF's Comprehensive Surveillance Review and economic sustainability, with experts from civil society organisations and the IMF

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📅 15 Oct, 11:00-12:30 DC
📍 IMF HQ2-03B-768B
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Civil Society Policy Forum 2025 IMF comprehensive surveillance review: looking back and forward Wednesday 15th October, 11:00 - 12:30 EDT IMF HQ2-03B-768B Moderator: FEDERICO SIBAJA, IMF Campaign Manager, Recourse Speakers: NABIL ABDO Senior Policy Advisor Oxfam International ZAIN MOULVI Research Director Alternative Law Collective TARA POVEY Macroeconomics Project Lead Bretton Woods Project ROUGUI DALLO Economic Research Officer International Trade Union Confederation ALEKSANDRA ZDZIENICKA Deputy Division Chief IMF Strategy Policy and Review Department (SPR) SARAH SANYA Deputy Division Chief IM Strategy Policy and Review Department (SPR)
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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UnitedNations Special Rapporteur on the right to development Prof Surya Deva argues UN at 80 reform must deliver strategic transformation, including of the governance structures of the IMF and WorldBank #UNGA80

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UN80: A missed opportunity for transformation?
Member states must deliver on strategic transformation that enables UN to respond to growing crises.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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70 civil society groups are calling on the IMF to create an SDRs Playbook. SDRs provided $650B in COVID relief without fueling inflation. Now we need reforms to unlock their full potential during crises

🔍 tinyurl.com/SDRsLetter2025

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Photo showing outside and logo of the IMF A Global Coalition of 70 Civil Society Groups Calls for an SDRs Playbook to Unlock Emergency Finance At the 2025 Financing for Development Forum, nearly every country in the world endorsed the Compromiso de Sevilla, urging the IMF to create a Special Drawing Rights playbook. Today, 70 organizations call for reforms to maximize global financial stability and development finance, including automatic issuances, needs-based distribution, and equity-based accounting.
October 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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IMF and World Bank continue to support policies that contribute to democratic backsliding and rise of populism and authoritarianism amid crisis of multilateralism #UNGA80

See the cover piece of our #BWObserver Autumn25 🔍

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Fuelling authoritarianism: The role of the Fund and Bank in eroding the social contract
BWIs’ policies continue to contribute to the rise of populism, authoritarianism and backlash against multilateralism despite the institutions’ long-standing concerns and rhetorical support for reform.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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New in #BWObserver Autumn 25 👉Civil society calls on the IFC & the Asian Development Bank not to finance Balochistan copper mine, warning the project “risks exacerbating social tensions, attacks against peaceful activists, and environmental and social destruction.”

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Civil society urges the IFC and ADB to cancel financing for Pakistan copper mine
Located in a militarised region, the project risks exacerbating social disruption and environmental destruction.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The IFC review of its Sustainability Framework risks rhetoric over reform: remedy gaps, weak oversight, and opacity persist as IFIs lean on private finance despite evidence of harm.

More in our latest Inside the Institutions:
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IFC Sustainability Framework Review
This Inside the Institutions critically analyses the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) review of its Sustainability Framework, amidst intensifying scrutiny of its harmful investments.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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The #WBGMeetings #IMFMeetings Annual Meetings come as the IMF & World Bank struggle to find response to global backlash to neoliberalism, as ‘new Bretton Woods’ reforms sputter👇

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Annual Meetings 2025 Preamble: Bank and Fund struggle to find response to global backlash to neoliberalism, as ‘new Bretton Woods’ reforms sputter
The mounting contradictions between rhetoric and practice at the IMF and World Bank grow as geopolitical tensions and poor economic prospects strain social and political stability.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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In our new At Issue briefing, Prof C. P. Chandrasekhar argues that the US’s tariff war risks worsening the macroeconomic outlook in the Global South – and creating a crisis of legitimacy for the IMF🔥

See more in #BWObserver Autumn25
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The Bretton Woods twins and the Trump tariffs: Implications for the Global South
The US’s decision to forsake core tenets of neoliberalism potentially deepens IMF’s crisis of legitimacy.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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📰 Future of IMF’s climate work uncertain, as climate crisis intensifies

“The IMF has made extremely slow progress in supporting countries’ fulfilment of the Paris Agreement goals,” said Federico Sibaja from Recourse, in article 👉 www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/10/futu... @brettonwoodsproject.org
Future of IMF’s climate work uncertain, as climate crisis intensifies
US hostility to IMF’s climate work risks further exacerbating macroeconomic fallout from climate crisis.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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IMF conditionality review must acknowledge that macroeconomic stability cannot be built on the erosion of rights, care systems, and the environment - says Julia Gerlo (of FARN) in our #Observer Autumn 25

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People demonstrate against the government of Argentinian President Javier Milei in front of the National Congress, Buenos Aires. Photo: Luis Robayo/AFP
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Our new Bretton Woods Observer – Autumn 2025 reviews key global trends, from IMF-backed reforms to IFC sustainability Framework review, climate and debt challenges shaping the current international development landscape. Explore the full issue → tinyurl.com/ObserverAutu...
Autumn 2025
This edition exposes how IMF and World Bank austerity and debt policies fuel inequality, repression, and democratic erosion. From Angola’s mass protests to Argentina’s debt crisis…
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October 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Our new analysis on IMF surveillance finds IMF’s core policy direction has remained consistent over 14 years and is identical to that previously described as “structural adjustment”.

Read our findings an recommendations in our new briefing

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Brace for impact: Social and gender inequality in IMF surveillance
New BWP briefing on IMF Surveillance finds IMF’s core policy direction has remained consistent over a 14-year period and is identical to that previously described as “structural adjustment”.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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As IMF News reviews its Surveillance Policy, new @re-course.org report finds that between 2022 and mid-2025 IMF advice pushed fiscal consolidation in nearly 2/3 of 60 countries assessed - without considering impacts on climate investments

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IMF surveillance and climate action — Report by Recourse
Report: IMF surveillance falls short in addressing climate threats
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October 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Third World Network book shows how Global North, IMF & World Bank, restrict developing countries' policy space through debt and austerity - laying out a proactive trade and climate agenda for the South to pursue development on its own terms

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Shaping a Proactive Trade, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Agenda for the Global South
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October 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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New @re-course.org & Trend Asia report exposes how an IFC-backed liquified natural gas project in Indonesia is violating community rights, destroying forests and driving up emissions #stopfundinggas

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Report on Tangguh LNG: Big project, huge risks
Read the report by Recourse and Trend Asia, examining the role of multilateral development banks and other financiers for the Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM