October 19, 2023 The undersigned organizations are gravely concerned about the recent media report of child sexual abuse at Bridge International Academies in Kenya, and allegations that the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
India has been the poster boy of the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business as it leaped in the ranking by rapidly deregulating its economy. Environmental regulations were scaled back, labour regulations diluted...
Three years after discontinuing the Doing Business report, the World Bank Group is introducing a new corporate flagship publication called the Business Ready (B-READY) report.
This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took place virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of April, 2022.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the Board of Governors of the World Bank (WB) Group is having its annual Spring meeting from April 18th- 24, 2022 in order to commemorate another year...
In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that...
Since the COVID-19 crisis emerged, MDBs have stepped in with massive packages for economic, social and health support. Details of funds received by India from Multilateral Development Banks for COVID-19 recovery support as of 30th October...
Action Week on World Bank Brings Together Social & Political Activists, Probing their Past and Demanding Accountability Press Release |  October 16, 2020 New Delhi: A key message reverberating in the week long protest...
Multilateral Development Organizations like the World Bank Group over the past decades have defined mainly how the language and direction of development have shaped globally. In India, the experience has been no different. From...
Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings Date: 12 October, 2020 New Delhi: People’s Movements, Civil Society Groups, and concerned citizens are coming together to protest the World...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
