IMF conditionality and its discontents
Popular resistance to the IMF’s role and influence appears to be growing in significance. A December study published by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and German political...
View ArticlePilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Read a pdf version of CIFs Monitor 10 Funding options and constraints The June sub-committee meeting discussed options for the use of potential new funds for the PPCR. It was agreed to further develop...
View ArticlePilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Read a pdf version of CIFs Monitor 11 Funding shortfall According the PPCR April semi-annual report a projected shortfall of $20.5 million in funding by April (see CIFs Monitor 10) was offset by a...
View ArticlePilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Read a pdf version of CIFs Monitor 12 New pilot countries Following the November 2014 decision to invite eligible countries to express interest in joining the PPCR (see CIFs Monitor 11), in the May...
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Climate Investment Funds Monitor 13
Read a pdf version of CIFs Monitor 13 The future of the CIFs The November 2015 joint Clean Technology Fund (CTF) – Strategic Climate Fund (CTF) trust fund committee meeting discussed a late October...
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Climate Investment Funds Monitor 14
Read a pdf version of CIFs Monitor 14 See below for general information about the CIFs ‘Sunset clause’ postponed The June joint CTF and SCF trust fund committees meeting reviewed the May Strategic...
View ArticleWorld Bank technical assistance and policy lending lead to Jamaica gas lock-in
The World Bank’s technical assistance and development policy financing (DPF) have led to a massive investment in gas infrastructure in Jamaica, despite the fossil fuel’s ‘green’ credentials being...
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Learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: The World Bank’s macroeconomic...
Find full briefing here. The World Bank has been staunchly criticised by civil society organisations for failing to put a feminist, just recovery front and centre of its Covid-19 pandemic response,...
View ArticleIndependent Evaluation Office downplays IMF’s promotion of austerity whilst...
In September, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF published its evaluation Growth and Adjustment in IMF-Supported Programs. In the report, the IEO, whose role is to conduct evaluations...
View ArticleResilience and Sustainability Trust’s first loans promote climate PPPs,...
The first series of loan agreements from the IMF’s new Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), which became operational in October (see Dispatch Annuals 2022), has doubled down on the Bretton Woods...
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