A Community is left to pay a hefty price for the IFC to “Learn Free Lessons”
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The Remedy and Responsible Exit Campaign is Set to Go!
Background International Finance Institutions (IFIs) fund development projects that all too often have significant adverse impacts on people and the environment. After decades of advocacy by civil society organizations, Indigenous
The Urgent Need for IMF Reform: Illustrations from the Middle East and North Africa
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Return to the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund 2022: The failure of policies & the promotion of the interests !
Despite the protests, the sessions, the debates, and all the pressure that civil society organizations exerted during the annual meetings to highlight the seriousness of the current economic situation and
End Austerity: A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25
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We need to audit development banks’ role in pandemic response
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Cancel the Debt in the face of the health, economic and climate crises!
The G7 Summit will take place in Germany from June 26 – June 28, 2022, and this is in a world that has seen little substantive change over many decades. On top
Now would be a good time for the IMF to do away with unfair and unnecessary surcharges
Written by: Shereen Talaat, co-director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Arab Watch Regional Coalition, and Dan Beeton, the international communications director for the Center for Economic