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Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

On August 27th, the World Bank came out with a statement suspending the Doing Business Report. The statement said that ...

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CSO Comments on Operationalizing Reforms to the Inspection Panel, including the creation of a new Accountability Mechanism

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly a...

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CSO Space during the 5th Annual Meeting

Civil society groups from across the globe wrote to the President of AIIB Jin Liqun raised concerns during the global p...

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Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon

On August 24 evening, a federal court ruled that the World Bank Group cannot be sued for any damage caused by its lendi...

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The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

The world was witnessing a massive buildup of debt, even before the pandemic began. World Bank described it as the larg...

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A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly a...

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Updates from IMF: Forecast for Post-COVID Economy and Debt Levels

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released two updates in the month of June – first was the World Economic O...

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Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

The annual World Development Report (WDR) is a flagship publication of the World Bank. The 2021 WDR report is in the pr...

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Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

Over the years increasingly institutions like World Bank and other MDBs have started using post-disaster situations and...

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STILL DIGGING: G20 GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO FINANCE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

In 2015, governments around the world committed to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (°C) and to stri...

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September 4, 2020

Maju Varghese

Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

On August 27th, the World Bank came out with a statement suspending the Doing Business Report. The statement said that a number of irregularities have been reported regarding changes to the data in the Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 reports, published in October 2017 and 2019. The chan...

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August 29, 2020

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CSO Comments on Operationalizing Reforms to the Inspection Panel, including the creation of a new Accountability Mechanism

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly adopted Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) started in 2017. The World Bank’s Committee on Development Effectiveness initiated a Inspection Panel Toolkit Technical ...

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August 29, 2020

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CSO Space during the 5th Annual Meeting

Civil society groups from across the globe wrote to the President of AIIB Jin Liqun raised concerns during the global pandemic and demanded accountability and transparency from AIIB during this pandemic. With the government’s in Asia opting to use the heavy-handed method of police crackdowns ...

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August 26, 2020

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Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon

On August 24 evening, a federal court ruled that the World Bank Group cannot be sued for any damage caused by its lending–despite last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the same case that these institutions can be sued for their “commercial activity” in the United States. In Jam v. International Finan...

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August 26, 2020

Maju Varghese

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

The world was witnessing a massive buildup of debt, even before the pandemic began. World Bank described it as the largest, fastest and most broad based amounting to 230 percentage of the Global GDP. Debt in the emerging and developing countries were at a record level of US$ 55 trillion in 20...

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July 30, 2020

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A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly adopted Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) started in 2017 but, the changes that they have recommended so far are inadequate and far from strengthening the IP or the communiti...

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July 15, 2020

Maju Varghese

Updates from IMF: Forecast for Post-COVID Economy and Debt Levels

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released two updates in the month of June – first was the World Economic Outlook, titled A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery and another was the Financial Stability Report. These reports and updates are some of the most watched reports by e...

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July 4, 2020

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Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

The annual World Development Report (WDR) is a flagship publication of the World Bank. The 2021 WDR report is in the process of being drafted and is titled “Data for Better Lives”. The Bank has shared the concept note for the Report for comments. As per the concept note, the World Development Repor...

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July 2, 2020

Anuradha Munshi

Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

Over the years increasingly institutions like World Bank and other MDBs have started using post-disaster situations and climate change as an opportunity to bring in policy reforms. Post disaster rehabilitation and recovery programmes provide institutions an easy entry with little resistance to the ...

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February 14, 2023

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STILL DIGGING: G20 GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO FINANCE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

In 2015, governments around the world committed to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (°C) and to strive to limit warming to 1.5°C by adopting the Paris Agreement. This analysis shows that since the Paris Agreement was made, G20 countries have acted directly counter to it by provid...

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Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

CSO Comments on Operationalizing Reforms to the Inspection Panel, including the creation of a new Accountability Mechanism

CSO Space during the 5th Annual Meeting

Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

Updates from IMF: Forecast for Post-COVID Economy and Debt Levels

Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

STILL DIGGING: G20 GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO FINANCE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Give Doing Business report a COVID burial

CSO Comments on Operationalizing Reforms to the Inspection Panel, including the creation of a new Accountability Mechanism

CSO Space during the 5th Annual Meeting

Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.

Updates from IMF: Forecast for Post-COVID Economy and Debt Levels

Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

STILL DIGGING: G20 GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO FINANCE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

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