This week’s IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings kicked off celebrations marking 80 years since they were created at the Bretton Woods Conference. But instead of moving with the times, the lack of outcomes this week demonstrate just how outdated and ill-equipped these institutions are, making them unable to address the complex realities of the 21st century.
Instead of addressing their structural problems, they have reaffirmed the same failed recipes.
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Civil society organisations addressed the World Bank and the IMF at their spring meetings in order to promote social security world wide
2024-SpringMeetings-IMF-WBG-EDs-Letter-SS.pdf (socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org)
ITUC: Time for democratisation of global institutions
The ITUC calls for a major democratic reform of the international financial architecture as a key demand in its For Democracy campaign, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank hold their spring meetings.
- As BWIs fail to transform, countries should re-embrace more democratic space at the United Nations
- UN Financing for Development Conference on horizon, with historic progress on tax cooperation raising hopes on debt
Read the analysis of the Bretton Woods Project
Eurodad’s reaction to the IMF/WB spring meetings 2023
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