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Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀 This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, @IMFNews surveillance review, @WorldBank’s billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇 tinyurl.com/ObserverSummer…

Since 2016, 🇨🇳Chinese development finance has fallen + @worldbank's pivot toward energy is likely to accelerate in the coming years. But as @BUBeckyRay discusses in @brettonwoodspr, this shift risks a “race to the bottom” in standards. Read more: gdpcenter.org/4mbtRmO

New data show development finance for energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries is shifting from 🇨🇳Chinese lenders to the @worldbank. @BUBeckyRay discusses in the latest @brettonwoodspr Observer: gdpcenter.org/3UnIYgI

New from @brettonwoodspr: Will the World Bank be a partner for a just energy transition in developing countries? Could depend on 3 major policy areas: 🦾 strengthening of ESF, 🪨 role in advising mining countries, ⚖️ participation in debt relief brettonwoodsproject.org/wp-content/upl…

As Comprehensive Surveillance Review begins, world cannot afford @IMFNews to miss another opportunity to reform its surveillance and policy advice to countries in the context of rising inequality and the impact of climate crisis More in #ObserverSummer25 tinyurl.com/SurveillanceRe…

New report from @ActionAidGhana and @SOMO provides withering assessment of @WorldBank’s role in Ghana’s gas development, as derisking for foreign investors has yielded rising government debt and higher energy costs More in #ObserverSummer25👇 tinyurl.com/GhanaGas

#IMF surveillance—the annual macro-economic health check required of its member countries—is under review this year. Civil society groups call on the Fund to learn lessons from its past failures. Read the article by @brettonwoodspr #ObserverSummer25➡️ brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/07/the-im…

New in #ObserverSummer25🚨 @IMFNews complicit in human rights violations resulting from @JMilei neoliberal and autocratic policies, highlighting need for international financial architecture democratisation and debt resolution #DropTheDebt @volker_turk tinyurl.com/ArgentinaIMF

#FfD4Sevilla turned into a watered down consensus, reflecting lowest common denominator of multilateralism in times of tense geopolitics, argue @ma_jose_romero & @jeantheoptimist, of @eurodad Read our guest wrap up of #FfD4: tinyurl.com/FfD4Wrap-up

In crucial #JubileeYear calls at #FfD4 for @UN-led debt workout mechanism watered down, as @WorldBank and @IMFNews’ rich shareholders refused to loosen their grip on the international financial architecture Read our #ObserverSummer25 cover👇 tinyurl.com/JubileeCampaig…

After a lull, @WorldBank is controversially returning to financing ‘top-down mega dams’ under Ajay Banga – as board approves financing for long-delayed Inga 3 project in DR Congo despite CSO opposition More in our #ObserverSummer25⬇️

Are you a #Climate or #EconomicJustice expert? Do you want to better understand the role of the #IMF and #debt in climate (in)action? Don't miss this webinar: A Civil Society Guide to the IMF and Climate Justice ⏰ 21 July, 15:00–16:30 CEST 👉 Register events.teams.microsoft.com/event/13a766f5…

In new guest analysis for our #ObserverSummer25 @CllrGunawardena argues @IMFNews failed approach to debt sustainability and #austerity in Sri Lanka adds evidence for urgent need of IFA reform, including a @UN debt workout mechanism tinyurl.com/SriLankaIMF

#News Lens: Global North countries have failed to deliver the reforms & actions required to make #SDRs more fit for purpose for the Global South, argue @JonSward & @niramer24 of @ActionAidUSA #FfD4 must mark the start of a new chapter #SDRsPlaybook actionaidusa.org/insight/ffd4-m…

#News Lens: as @WorldBank, @IMFNews & other MDBs and governments meet in Seville for #FFD4Sevilla, @RecourseTeam urges them to heed people's calls for reform: cancel the debt, redistribute the wealth and fund the just transition. linkedin.com/pulse/seizing-…

Check out this @FordFoundation x @ForeignPolicy "Global Governance Reimagined" series Part 1 highlights debt's devastating human toll and the solutions to the debt-development crisis, quoting us. A must-read for #FfD4. globalgovernancereimagined.com

📢 Join us at #FfD4 in Seville! Financing Alternatives to Budget Cuts 🗓️ 2 July | 🕝 2:30–4:00 PM 💬 How do we fund universal social protection without austerity? Hear from global experts & activists on real solutions. #EndAusterity #FinanceOurFuture #EraOfJustice

Join us Today, at this virtual side event @ #FFD4 We'll present the Rabat Roadmap, the outcome of a global feminist convening in Rabat, Guided by the expertise and analysis of feminists from theMENA, and the global South more broadly 📆 Register at: bit.ly/RabatRoadmapEv…

We demand bold action in Sevilla for universal high quality #PublicServices for all & that truly transform the unjust financing architecture. We join forces w/ 35 orgs against ❌commercialisation ❌ privatisation that harm rights. ➡️peopleoverprof.it/resources/publ… #PublicServiceDay

Europe’s🇪🇺 actions so far have been woefully insufficient, but it’s not too late for European leaders to support an #EraOfJustice and a better future for the world’s poorest people. Join the movement! #FfD4 #Jubilee2025 eurodad.org/jubilee_2025_p…