While the Leaders' Summit on Climate brought together climate laggards and climate-vulnerable countries, the ‘invite-only’ nature of the Summit is another reminder that the climate agenda is still largely driven by rich, developed countries.
By Leia Achampong (Eurodad) and Carola Mejia (LATINDADD)
This year, the ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum took place virtually from 12 and 15 April.
The latest briefing by the Financial Transparency Coalition tracks fiscal and social protection responses to Covid-19 in the global south.
The Global Austerity Alert is published by ITUC, Public Services International, Bretton Woods Project, Third World Network, Arab Watch Coalition and IPD/Columbia University.
Eurodad's policy experts reflect on the 2021 IMF and WBG spring meetings, raising concerns of an insufficient response and the inability of the Bretton Woods Institutions to put global social equity at the heart of long-term plans to rebuild fairer post-pandemic.
Eurodad Director Jean Saldanha reflects on the 2021 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.
What are Special Drawing Rights and why are they so important to the global recovery post-Covid? Find out more in this interactive infographic.
Read our detailed analysis on SDRs | Click to expand the infograph
The US$650 billion allocation of SDRs proposed by the IMF will not support the post-Covid economic recovery of the poorest countries. In the following article, we set out the argument for a much larger allocation, one worth US$3 trillion.
In March 2020 the World Bank Group pledged to provide US$ 160bn to client countries in the 15 months to June 2021. In this briefing we analyse the Bank's response and ask, given private finance's central role, who is truly benefitting from their Covid-19 response package?
World leaders failed to seize an opportunity for vital reform of the international debt architecture when they met yesterday (29 March) at the UN.
