Briefing
Sustainable economic development
Why is debt restructuring important?
Save the Children UK and Debt Justice UK outline the six critical reforms needed to fix the G20 Common Framework, the mechanism lower-income countries can use to restructure their debts.
From access to resilience: how FAST savings groups advance women’s economic empowerment
Trisha Mapacpac at VisionFund shares how a mix of credit, insurance coverage, digital innovation, and training is enabling rural women across 10 countries to grow their businesses and support their families.
Shifting the balance of power: an urgent need for legislative reform to protect rights
Eleanor Rosenbach, co-director of the Corporate Justice Coalition, on how to address the rampant power imbalance between businesses on the one hand, and people and communities on the other.
The human cost of yet another crisis should drive transformative change to the global financial system
The scale of today’s crisis demands urgency, structural change and a commitment to putting the most vulnerable communities first. Yet signals from the Spring Meetings suggest rich countries are being prioritised. How can this mark a turning point?
Statistics paint a bleak picture for the world’s most marginalised
As the UK government implements its cuts to ODA, the newly released Statistics for International Development (SIDs) offer important spending insights on these reductions. Here are the key takeaways.
How the UK fuels child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries by enabling illicit finance
Sunit Bagree at Results UK examines the devastating consequences of the UK’s complicity in trade-related illicit financial flows. Can the British government turn the tide?
The UN Tax Convention: the government’s chance to stand for economic justice
The UN Tax Convention negotiations begin next week. If successful, the convention would mark the beginning of a new era of international tax justice – one where wealth is no longer hoarded by a tiny elite while billions go without the basics. War on Want’s Nuri Syed Corser tells us more.
The IMF is ideologically committed to neoliberalism despite its pronouncements on social inequality
Ahead of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Annual meetings, which start on 13 October, The Bretton Woods Project has launched a new website analysing IMF surveillance from the last 15 years. Tara Povey takes us through what they’ve discovered.