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World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2025. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank (From The Bretton Woods Project) In 2025, the I...

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The Balance Sheet: World Bank & its 80-year legacy | Documentary Trailer

Unmasking 80 years of power, profit, and people’s resistance.For 80 years, the World Bank and IMF have fueled displac...

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EU – India FTA and Financial Liberalization

Himanshu Damle Even though India and the European Union (EU) are celebrating 60 years of bilateralism, it was only in 20...

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Paris aligned?

The International Finance Corporation’s financial intermediary investments, fossil fuels and the climate crisis The Wor...

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Unpacking the WTO and Free Trade Agreements

With the growing integration of economic activities around the world, international trade has become an interesting are...

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Reading the Rhetoric: G20, its Politics & What the 2023 Presidency Means for India

Founded in 1999, in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, G20’s formation was announced by the finance ministers of t...

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Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

14 October 2021: With the world facing a climate crisis, urgent action is required on many fronts, not least in ensuring...

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People’s Summit on BRICS from 18th to 22nd October 2021.

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World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Rankin...

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Comments from India, Myanmar & Philippines on the Report

& Recommendations from the External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAO’s Role & Effective...

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October 9, 2025

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IFC Sustainability Framework Review

World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2025. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank (From The Bretton Woods Project) In 2025, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group (see Inside the Institutions, What is the International Finance Corporation (IFC)? ), launche...

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March 11, 2026

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The Balance Sheet: World Bank & its 80-year legacy | Documentary Trailer

Unmasking 80 years of power, profit, and people’s resistance.For 80 years, the World Bank and IMF have fueled displacement, inequality, fossil dependence, and authoritarian regimes—while claiming to fight poverty. The Balance Sheet exposes their legacy and sinister designs, and celebrates global ...

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June 30, 2023

Himanshu Damle

EU – India FTA and Financial Liberalization

Himanshu Damle Even though India and the European Union (EU) are celebrating 60 years of bilateralism, it was only in 2007 during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first tenure that a strategic partnership between the two parties was signed, which after six years of engagements broke down due to unres...

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April 14, 2023

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Paris aligned?

The International Finance Corporation’s financial intermediary investments, fossil fuels and the climate crisis The World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), plays a significant role in influencing private financial flows. As the “largest global development insti...

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February 15, 2023

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Unpacking the WTO and Free Trade Agreements

With the growing integration of economic activities around the world, international trade has become an interesting arena for observers of international political economy and development practices. The challenge, however, is that the global trade landscape is quite cluttered, you have the WTO dynam...

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February 15, 2023

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Reading the Rhetoric: G20, its Politics & What the 2023 Presidency Means for India

Founded in 1999, in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, G20’s formation was announced by the finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) as the forum for international cooperation on financial and economic questions and was supposed to act as a platform to unite finance ministers and central b...

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October 14, 2021

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Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

14 October 2021: With the world facing a climate crisis, urgent action is required on many fronts, not least in ensuring adequate levels of climate finance to support mitigation and adaptation in the Global South. Campaigns to shift public finance, provided through instruments such as development ba...

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February 15, 2023

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People’s Summit on BRICS from 18th to 22nd October 2021.

Register here to participate in the online summit: tinyurl.com/peoplesbrics-2021-register As the 13th BRICS Summit was recently held and chaired by India, the People’s Forum on BRICS (a network of people’s movements, progressive civil society organizations, and trade unions) is convening a 5-day ...

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October 13, 2021

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World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that revealed serious ethical improprieties, conflicts of interest inherent in the Bank’s...

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September 22, 2020

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Comments from India, Myanmar & Philippines on the Report

& Recommendations from the External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAO’s Role & Effectiveness We welcome the opportunity to comment on the report of the external review team. At the outset, the recommendations reinforce our long-running calls to address the accounta...

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IFC Sustainability Framework Review

The Balance Sheet: World Bank & its 80-year legacy | Documentary Trailer

EU – India FTA and Financial Liberalization

Paris aligned?

Unpacking the WTO and Free Trade Agreements

Reading the Rhetoric: G20, its Politics & What the 2023 Presidency Means for India

Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

People’s Summit on BRICS from 18th to 22nd October 2021.

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

Comments from India, Myanmar & Philippines on the Report

IFC Sustainability Framework Review

The Balance Sheet: World Bank & its 80-year legacy | Documentary Trailer

EU – India FTA and Financial Liberalization

Paris aligned?

Unpacking the WTO and Free Trade Agreements

Reading the Rhetoric: G20, its Politics & What the 2023 Presidency Means for India

Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

People’s Summit on BRICS from 18th to 22nd October 2021.

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

Comments from India, Myanmar & Philippines on the Report

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