A new briefing by Eurodad concludes that many of the World Bank’s conditions impede on Ghana’s sovereign right to decide independently on appropriate measures to recover from the global crisis and to boost long term sustainable development. If the Bank is committed to improving developing countries’ ownership over their development pathways, its practices need to be aligned to its promises allowing developing countries their legitimate right to decide on their future.
[see more]

IFI policy-based loans disproportionately harm poor women, who often become “shock absorbers” for neoliberal economic reforms like trade liberalization, privatization of public enterprises, government retrenchment, social spending cutbacks, user fees for essential services and financial sector reforms. A new guide developed by Gender Acion gives tips for submitting a gender discrimination compalint to an IFI accountability mechanism.
[see more]

The 2010 G8 Summit in Toronto in 2010 takes place during a “time of change and opportunity.” The financial crisis has spurred many civil society organizations (CSOs) to insist on far-reaching changes to the global financial system and its institutions (IFIs). A new publication by the Halifax Initiative together with other organizations: "Fifteen years is enough: What's changed in the international financial system and its institutions, what hasn't and what needs to" illustrates that 15 years of refusing to deal with the manifest shortcomings of the global economic system is enough.
[see more]

Women and gender issues were glaring in their absence from the March 31st Haiti International Donors' Conference held in New York when billions of dollars were pledged to finance Haiti's reconstruction. Haiti's National Plan of Action, the blueprint guiding reconstruction efforts and resource allocation, was based on a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) that failed to address gender dimensions of Haiti’s proposed strategies for reconstructing macroeconomic, social, environmental policies, as well as infrastructure and governance.
[see more]

A report by Eurodad highlights the lack of appropriate regulation and the global monetary (dis)order that have been at the heart of the current financial crisis.
[see more]