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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 6h

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

Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 11h

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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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 1d

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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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 2d

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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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 5d

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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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 7d

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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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 13d

New research shared exclusively with the Independent finds World Bank and IFC among MDBs still financing polluting industrial livestock programmes in developing countries despite promises to align financing with #ParisAgreement

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Development banks ‘still funding industrial livestock despite climate promises’

Three development banks, including the World Bank, have collectively invested $1 billion in 55 highly-polluting livestock projects between 2018 and 2024, new research claims

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 15d

‪#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-...

2025 Gender IFI Summer School

The 2025 Summer School brought together experienced speakers teaching about how international financial institutions (IFIs) impact women’s rights, and sharing advocacy and mobilising tactics to rise…

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 22d

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

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · 23d

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!

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BWP new website homepage

Monitoring the negative impacts of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Aug 5

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

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INFRASTRUCTUREnews
World Bank energy strategy review considers reversing phaseout of support for gas production
15 JULY 2025 | ID: 52982 | PROOF
SUMMARY

As World Bank pushes to provide electricity to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 under Mission 300, it considers lifting ban on support for gas production.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Aug 1

#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

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Event at the World Bank Group & IMF Spring Meetings 2025, titled: Jobs - The Path to Prosperity. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 30

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

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A view of a protest during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Photo: UN Photo/Mariscal

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 28

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.

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Installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Hongqiao Passenger Rail Terminal in Shanghai, China. Photo: Jiri Rezac

Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 24

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
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The IMF’s upcoming surveillance review

The Review takes place in a global context in which it is more pressing than ever to ensure that countries have the ability to take real action on climate change and rising social inequality.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 23

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👇

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Ghana's gas debt provides cautionary tale as World Bank reconsiders support for upstream gas projects

After following World Bank energy reform model, government faced with crippling debts and high energy costs.

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Recourse @re-course.org · Jul 23

#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-...

The IMF’s upcoming surveillance review

The Review takes place in a global context in which it is more pressing than ever to ensure that countries have the ability to take real action on climate change and rising social inequality.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 22

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

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IMF and Milei - partners in Argentina's neoliberal autocracy

IMF programme is complicit in Milei government’s contravention of national and human rights laws through its pursuit of autocratic and neoliberal policies.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 21

#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:
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FfD4 exposes continued lack of commitment to address systemic issues

Despite watered down consensus at FfD4, follow up opportunities must be seized upon to advance the agenda of international financial architecture reform in the coming years.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 17

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👇
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#FfD4Sevilla

Civil society demands unconditional debt relief in Jubilee year - Bretton Woods Project

In critical Jubilee year, civil society and Global South nations called for debt relief and UN-led debt workout mechanism at FfD4.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 16

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

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INFRASTRUCTUREnews
World Bank’s controversial support for Inga 3 dam signals return to big hydropower projects
15 JULY 2025
SUMMARY

CSOs criticise Bank’s return to financing ‘top-down mega dams’ and question its claims that project will resolve energy access deficit in DR Congo

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 16

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

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Sri Lanka and the IMF: Another stark example of the need for urgent debt restructure reform

17th IMF programme results in severe damaging austerity, as IMF continue to fail to address the root causes of the country’s cyclical debt problems.

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 15

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 🔥👇

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Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project

This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.

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ActionAid USA @aausa.bsky.social · Jul 10

#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

FfD4 must mark the start of transformative Special Drawing Rights reform - ActionAid USA

By Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project, and Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA Spain hosted the Fourth UN Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in

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Bretton Woods Project @brettonwoodsproject.org · Jul 10

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...

FfD4 must mark the start of transformative Special Drawing Rights reform - ActionAid USA

By Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project, and Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA Spain hosted the Fourth UN Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in

www.actionaidusa.org

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