Official Documents
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Potential Statutory Options to Encourage Private Sector Creditor Participation in the Common Framework
Posted by Joe Inwood · June 15, 2022 2:36 PM · 1 reaction
World Bank paper on legal statutory measures on private creditor involvement
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Why the IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust is not a silver bullet for Covid-19 recovery and the fight against climate change
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · January 27, 2022 4:35 PM · 1 reaction
Last week the IMF published a blog disclosing some key design features of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), confirming that countries will need to have a pre-existing programme to be eligible and that programmes will rely on conditionality designed in conjunction with the World Bank and other institutions. In this Twitter thread we outline the most worrying aspects of the RST, that may reproduce the inequalities of the current system and award the IMF additional powers outside of its mandate. You can also read our blog on the RST again here.
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Kristalina Georgieva statement on most recent IMF work program
Posted by · January 26, 2022 12:34 PM · 1 reaction
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Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, Yuefen Li
Posted by Iolanda Fresnillo · January 05, 2022 11:40 AM · 1 reaction
Former Independent Expert on Debt and Human Rights, Yuefen Li, made a call for inputs for a report on debt architecture and human rights.
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IFC’s Report ‘ Using Blended Concessional Finance to Invest in Challenging Markets: Economic Considerations, Transparency, Governance and Lessons of Experience’
Posted by Farwa Sial · December 23, 2021 5:38 PM · 1 reaction
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IMF blog: Sharing the Recovery: SDR Channeling and a New Trust
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · December 23, 2021 11:32 AM · 1 reaction
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IMF blog: Rethinking Multilateralism for a Pandemic Era
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · December 23, 2021 11:31 AM · 1 reaction
Has multilateralism failed us during the pandemic? Maybe not entirely, but we must organize ourselves on a whole-of-society basis within nations and rethink how we collaborate internationally to mitigate its profound consequences for livelihoods, social cohesion, and global order, World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Singapore Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers write in a new article for our latest edition of Finance & Development Magazine. Future crises may depend on a fundamental reset of international cooperation.
"Rethinking multilateralism has never been more urgent," the authors write. "The window for action is narrow. As the experience of earlier crises shows, the impetus to make bold change will fade once we are past the worst of the pandemic in the richest countries."
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IPCC - Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · August 11, 2021 12:01 PM · 1 reaction
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IPCC - AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis report
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · August 11, 2021 11:52 AM · 1 reaction
AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report is the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
Link to the report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
Europe regional factsheet: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/factsheets/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Regional_Fact_Sheet_Europe.pdf
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New 'donor profiles' + global aid trends, incl. link w vaccines, debt relief, SDRs & climate
Posted by Joe Inwood · June 15, 2021 2:05 PM · 1 reaction