‪#ICYMI: over 2000 participants registered to the 2025 Gender IFI network's Summer School in Aug-Sept. Did you miss any of the sessions? Access the recordings via our website: www.brettonwoodsproject.org/update/2025-...

New op-ed by Patricia Miranda & @jonsward.bsky.social: Backing #SDRs reform is one way for Britain and the EU to demonstrate commitment to building stronger and fairer global financial system and limiting the possibility of global financial chaos #SDRsPlaybook www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt....

Happy to announce the launch of our new website & visual identity🎉 We hope our visitors find the new features useful and the materials much easier to find and consume. If you have feedback please get in touch! www.brettonwoodsproject.org

New in #ObserverSummer25: Civil society raises alarm as the @WorldBank’s ongoing energy review lifts WBG ban on nuclear and considers return to financing ‘upstream’ gas projects @re-course.org tinyurl.com/EnergyReview...

#New in #ObserverSummer25: Banga’s 'new' World Bank vision recycles old myths. The private sector won’t fix development if it deepens debt, weakens states & fails to deliver jobs #BillionsToTrillions #DevelopmentFinance tinyurl.com/BangaCascade...

In the aftermath of #FfD4, Maria Jose Romero and Jean Saldana, of @eurodadnews.bsky.social argue that the FfD process has always been and should continue to be the space for civil society to call for decisive action to democratise the global economic governance 👉 tinyurl.com/FfD4Wrap-up

Can the World Bank be a partner for a just energy transition? In #ObserverSummer25, @becky-ray.bsky.social of @gdp-center.bsky.social argues it depends on strong environmental and social oversight, avoiding a new resource curse in minerals & debt relief during crises. tinyurl.com/ChinaJustEne...

As Comprehensive Surveillance Review begins, world cannot afford IMF to miss another opportunity to reform its surveillance and policy advice to countries in the context of rising inequality and the impact of climate crisis @oxfamifis.bsky.social #ObserverSummer25 tinyurl.com/Surveillance...

New report from ActionAid Ghana and SOMO provides withering assessment of WorldBank’s role in Ghana’s gas development, as derisking for foreign investors has yielded rising government debt and higher energy costs @somoamsterdam.bsky.social More in #ObserverSummer25👇 tinyurl.com/GhanaGas

#IMF surveillance—the annual macro-economic health check required of its member countries—is under review this year Civil society groups call on the IMF to learn lessons from its past failures Read the article @brettonwoodsproject.org #ObserverSummer25 ➡️ www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/07/the-...

New in #ObserverSummer25 IMF complicit in human rights violations resulting from Milei neoliberal and autocratic policies, highlighting the need for international financial architecture democratisation and debt resolution @latindadd.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ArgentinaIMF

#FfD4Sevilla turned into a watered down consensus, reflecting lowest common denominator of multilateralism in times of tense geopolitics, argue Maria Jose Romero & Jean Saldanha of @eurodadnews.bsky.social Read our guest wrap up of #FfD4: tinyurl.com/FfD4Wrap-up

In crucial #JubileeYear calls at #FfD4 for UN-led debt workout mechanism watered down, as WorldBank and IMFNews’ rich shareholders refused to loosen their grip on the international financial architecture Read our #ObserverSummer25 cover👇 tinyurl.com/JubileeCampa... #FfD4Sevilla

After a lull, World Bank is controversially returning to financing ‘top-down mega dams’ under Ajay Banga – as board approves financing for long-delayed Inga 3 project in DR Congo despite CSO opposition tinyurl.com/IngaDam

In a new guest analysis for our #ObserverSummer25 Charith Gunawardena argues IMF failed approach to debt sustainability and #austerity in Sri Lanka adds evidence for urgent need of IFA reform, including a UN debt workout mechanism #FfD4 #G77 tinyurl.com/SriLankaIMF

Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀 This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇 tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...

#FfD4 fell short, but the #SDRs playbook remains a lifeline for debt relief & climate action—IMF, make it count. @brettonwoodsproject.org's @jonsward.bsky.social & our ED, Niranjali Amerasinghe, weigh in via an insightful blog 👉 www.actionaidusa.org/insight/ffd4... #DebtJustice

Global North have failed to deliver the reforms & actions required to make #SDRs more fit for purpose for the Global South, argue @jonsward.bsky.social & Niranjali Amerasinghe of @aausa.bsky.social #FfD4 must mark the start of a new chapter #SDRsPlaybook www.actionaidusa.org/insight/ffd4...

As the World Bank, the IMF & other MDBs and governments meet in Seville for #FFD4Sevilla, @re-course.org urges them to heed people's calls for reform: cancel the debt, redistribute the wealth and fund the just transition. #CancelTheDebt #JustTransition www.linkedin.com/pulse/seizin...

My take on SDRs reform at #FfD4 multi-stakeholder roundtable, ‘Reforming the international financial architecture and addressing systemic issues’ #SDRsPlaybook mandated by Compromiso de Sevilla must deliver a more just monetary system @brettonwoodsproject.org @ceprdc.bsky.social @aausa.bsky.social

Check out this Ford Foundation x Foreign Policy "Global Governance Reimagined" series Part 1 highlights debt's devastating human toll and the solutions to the debt-development crisis, quoting us. Must-read for #FfD4. globalgovernancereimagined.com

Powerful speech by @eurodadnews.bsky.social's @toveryding.bsky.social at the #FfD4 Conference "We, the people are here to do our jobs"💪💪 #FfD4People #SystemChangeNow #EraOfJustice

We demand bold action in Sevilla for universal high quality #PublicServices for all & that truly transform the unjust financing architecture. We join forces w/ 35 orgs against ❌commercialisation ❌ privatisation that harm rights. \ More➡️ peopleoverprof.it/resources/pu... #PublicServiceDay

Europe’s🇪🇺 actions so far have been woefully insufficient, but it’s not too late for European leaders to support an #EraOfJustice and a better future for the world’s poorest people. Join the movement! #FfD4 #Jubilee2025 eurodad.org/jubilee_2025_petition

A new article by @oaklandinstitute.org argues "the World Bank continues to lavish funding and legitimacy on Milei’s extractivist, enabling the plunder of Indigenous territories and the degradation of vital ecosystems – all under the guise of sustainability" 🔗 www.oaklandinstitute.org/our-take/ana...

Our new analysis found that between FY2018-2023, the World Bank classified 70% of energy-related DPF reforms as climate finance. However, there's little evidence these reforms improved energy access, affordability, or progress on a green transition. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ClimateFinan...

Our latest study reveals how the World Bank is using its Development Policy Finance (DPF) instrument to push energy sector reforms that promote a private-led energy transition – while counting these policy changes as ‘climate finance’. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ClimateFinan...

#FfD4 will set the agenda for how the global economic system will serve #development in the coming years. European governments should show the political will that is needed for #EconomicJustice. The time is now! ⏰ Read @eurodadnews.bsky.social OpEd in @politico.eu: www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...

🚨 New @brettonwoodspr briefing reveals how the World Bank is using Development Policy Finance (DPF) – its policy-based lending instrument – to advance market-based energy reforms, while counting these reforms as climate finance. What does this mean for #ClimateJustice? 🧵 1/

With #SDRs among the contentious topics in #FfD4 negotiations, find out more about how changes to the IMF’s SDRs accounting rules could enhance their use for fiscal purposes in LMICs CC @brettonwoodsproject.org @ceprdc.bsky.social @menafem.bsky.social www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/04/deco...

At this year's #SpringMeetings, civil society organised a CSPF where they & the IMF discussed the Fund’s policy impact on gendered division of labour. Did you now make it? the posts are available now on our website: www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/04/miss...

At WorldBank & IMF 2025 #SpringMeetings civil society gathered to discuss how to advance energy transformation in Africa, prioritising inclusive development, decent jobs, climate resilience & social equity. If you missed it, we just posted the minutes👇 www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/04/miss...

If you have not had a chance to watch it yet, The Fisherman and the Banker will be screened in London, followed by a special Q&A When? Sat 28/06 - 6:35pm Where? The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden👇 www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/the-fis...

Once more the Development Committee did not release a communiqué. Instead, the chair released a statement, which largely aligned with the World Bank’s much critiqued #privatesectorfirst approach Read our Dispatch #SpringMeetings 2025 tinyurl.com/DevComSpring...

Many Global South countries spend five times more on repaying debt than tackling climate change – governments meeting in Seville next month can stop this downward spiral, via @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/07/w...

Amid US attacks on climate action – and deafening silence from Bank and Fund leaders – climate vulnerable countries demand urgent changes to global financial architecture Read our #SpringMeetings V20 Group communique: tinyurl.com/V20Springs2025

Once more the #SpringMeetings ended in absence of meaningful reform at World Bank & IMF, with discussions on key issues such as gender and climate nowhere to be found due to uncertainty about US's position within BWIs Read our Wrap-up tinyurl.com/WrapUpSpring...

The G20 Group fails to issue a communiqué or chair statement at IMF News and World Bank #SpringMeetings as deepening geopolitical tensions raise barriers to consensus at all multilateral fora Read this and other communiques from the Meetings 👇 tinyurl.com/G20Springs25

@oaklandinstitute.org launches new research suggesting WorldBank's land reform agenda real aim is to open lands for agribusiness, mining of transition minerals and carbon credit schemes www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/w...

Read GEM lead Tara Povey's reflection on this year's #SpringMeetings, via @menafem.bsky.social "The Treasury Secretary's remarks instructed the Fund and Bank to root out ‘mission creep’, again singling out gender, climate and socialissues"👇

G24 communiqué doubles down on domestic resource mobilisation – but sidesteps the structural injustices of the global financial system, leaving developing countries exposed amid aid cuts, trade tensions and surging capital costs #SpringMeetings tinyurl.com/G24Springs25

This year's #SpringMeetings IMFC chair statement reflects IMF's scramble to shape the international order in new US administration’s image tinyurl.com/IMFCSprings25

World Bank says its mission is to create a world free of poverty on a liveable planet. However, its policy prescriptions continue to restructure Global South economies in ways that de-prioritise production for domestic markets and disincentivise industrial policy www.ipsnews.net/2025/04/worl...

🚨Our Spring Meetings 2025 Wrap-up is NOW OUT: World Bank and IMF leadership self-censors on #climatechange and #gender issues, as US tariffs rock global economic outlook 🔗 tinyurl.com/WrapUpSpring...

As CSO FfD mechanism meets today in NYC ahead of the #FfDForum, our #ObserverSpring25 highlights CSOs call for the return of Monterrey Consensus to reassert the role of the UN in reforming a badly outdated international financial architecture #Ffd4 🔗 tinyurl.com/FfD4Spirit

New in our #ObserverSpring25 – Sue Godt comments on the human rights consequences of @ifcorg.bsky.social's healthcare financing model, following @bloomberg.com's exposé @arc-au.bsky.social @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social @re-course.org 👉 tinyurl.com/IFCHealthFin...

New IMF Independent Evaluation Office report finds Exceptional Access Policy has been inconsistent, politically driven and ineffective at addressing debt risks - however very little has been said about this at #SpringMeetings #IMFMeetings More in #ObserverSpring25 tinyurl.com/IMFExceptionalAccess

Today at #SpringMeetings we are Decoding IMF Accounting and discussing the potential of IMF's SDRs, with Maia Colodenco, Andres Arauz @ceprdc.bsky.social, Niranjali Amerasinghe @aausa.bsky.social & @jonsward.bsky.social #IMFmeetings Join us in person or online: imf.zoom.us/j/9909853207...

In this BWP #ObserverSpring25 Guest Analysis, Faith Lumonya of @amwaafrika.bsky.social explores the dynamics of the ‘aid trap’ in light of significant ODA cuts Check it out: tinyurl.com/AfricaAidTrap

This week civil society and finance ministers around the 🌎 are meeting for the #IMFMeetings & #WBGMeetings in Washington DC. Do you want to see what may be up on the agenda? what CSOs worry about? check out our Dispatch Springs 2025 👇 tinyurl.com/PreambleSpri...