Ahamed’s book helps address this gap. The monograph is organized around four facets of the IMF’s activities: daily life at headquarters in Washington; the whirlwind of the October 2012 IMF–World Bank ...

This is why the World Bank and the IMF need to be abolished to save the planet and human lives. Caribbean island nations know this reality all too well. On July 1, Hurricane Beryl slammed into ...

Think of all this important documentary evidence. Where do all those archival sources live? Like the IMF, the World Bank did not technically exist during or even immediately after the conference and ...

After HIPC debt relief is taken into account, their debt service obligations will fall to less than $2 billion per year (of which 10 percent is owed to the World Bank and 12 percent to IMF). In ...

So, let’s do the usual, thinking through what the IMF is and why it even matters. The IMF and the World Bank are like the parallel universe versions of Shaggy and Scooby-Doo. They have no idea what ...

Human Right Watch defends the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice.

In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old ... Nicholas Stern (future chief economist at the Bank) wrote in the book that was to cover the Bank’s first fifty years: “The Bank’s ...

With the European economy lagging behind the United States, the head of the International Monetary Fund had a piece advice ...

The twin institutions of the IMF and the World Bank were born on July 1 ... and the COVID-19 global pandemic. In his book Globalization and Its Discontents, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph ...

The IMF forecasts came out a day after its sister agency, the World Bank, predicted global growth of 2.7% in 2025 and 2026, same as last year and 2023. The bank, which makes loans and grants to ...