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September 16, 2026
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Recommendations on the draft report on the potential integration of the World Bank Group’s Independent Accountability Mechanisms
As part of the One World Bank push, there are ongoing discussions around merging the various Independent Accountability Mechanisms (Inspection Panel and Compliance Advisor Ombudsman). A Task Force set up to explore options released a report on 26 March, open for public consultation. Instead of a...
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November 2, 2024
Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financial system on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary
The Bretton Woods institutions – the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)- have completed 80 years of existence and operations.  As people of the global south, who continue to bear the brunt of the impacts of colonial expansion, resource extraction, wealth concentration, climate change a...
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March 2, 2022
World Development Report 2022 released; Historic leak of Swiss banking, Credit Suisse in the eye of the storm
Snippets from the world of International Finance Amidst Russia’s revanchist war against Ukraine starting last week, there is lots of ink on the financial markets and the sequence will hit the global economy. The flurry of events has shattered the hopes of steady global economic recovery and have onl...
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February 15, 2023
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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