International Finance Institutions

Ties that Bind: World Bank Conditionalities in Pandemic Response

Reality of Aid Statement on the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings 2021November 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic has created the deepest economic crash...

The World Bank’s Development Policy Financing – Implications for a just, green and feminist recovery

Development Policy Financing is a lending instrument that supports targeted policy reforms and provides finance directly to a borrowing country’s...

The Cascade/MFD and a just and sustainable recovery: A first review in the pandemic context

Multiple crises caused by COVID-19 have created an unprecedented global shock. The WBG released a framework for supporting green, resilient...

CSO Critique on ADB’s Draft Energy Policy

While ADB is taking steps in leaving its dirty energy legacy behind, its Draft Energy Policy seems to lack the...

On the 2020 ODA Data: Extraordinary times, underwhelming response

The recently published preliminary ODA data of 2020 show that aid spending by DAC members totaled 161.2 billion USD which...

On Drastic Cuts to British Aid: Why less, when the world’s poor needs more?

On November 5th 2020, the British government announced that it would spend only 0.5% of its Gross National Income (GNI)...

What’s Next?: Delving into ADB’s policy on today’s health and economic crisis

Several developing countries in Asia Pacific continue to struggle against Coronavirus despite the wealth of information and best practices from...

International Financial Institutions: Financing Dependency Through Neoliberalism

Rising to prominence in the wake of World War 2, international finance institutions (IFIs) were formed by multiple countries, purportedly...

ADB Strategy 2030 advances corporate capture, not sustainable development in Asia Pacific

ADB’s newly-published Strategy 2030 is just a continuation and rehash of the failed Strategy 2020 released in 2008. After a...