INFRASTRUCTUREnews World Bank energy strategy review considers reversing phaseout of support for gas production 15 JULY 2025 | ID: 52982 | PROOF SUMMARY As World Bank pushes to provide electricity to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 under Mission 300, it considers lifting ban on support for gas production.

New in #ObserverSummer25: Civil society raises alarm as the @WorldBank’s ongoing energy review lifts WBG ban on nuclear and considers return to financing ‘upstream’ gas projects

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Event at the World Bank Group & IMF Spring Meetings 2025, titled: Jobs - The Path to Prosperity. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank.

#New in #ObserverSummer25: Banga’s 'new' World Bank vision recycles old myths. The private sector won’t fix development if it deepens debt, weakens states & fails to deliver jobs #BillionsToTrillions #DevelopmentFinance

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Installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Hongqiao Passenger Rail Terminal in Shanghai, China. Photo: Jiri Rezac

Can the World Bank be a partner for a just energy transition? In #ObserverSummer25, @becky-ray.bsky.social of @gdp-center.bsky.social argues it depends on strong environmental and social oversight, avoiding a new resource curse in minerals & debt relief during crises.

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The IMF’s upcoming surveillance review The Review takes place in a global context in which it is more pressing than ever to ensure that countries have the ability to take real action on climate change and rising social inequality.

As Comprehensive Surveillance Review begins, world cannot afford IMF 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 @oxfamifis.bsky.social

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The IMF’s upcoming surveillance review The Review takes place in a global context in which it is more pressing than ever to ensure that countries have the ability to take real action on climate change and rising social inequality.

#IMF surveillance—the annual macro-economic health check required of its member countries—is under review this year

Civil society groups call on the IMF to learn lessons from its past failures

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IMF and Milei - partners in Argentina's neoliberal autocracy IMF programme is complicit in Milei government’s contravention of national and human rights laws through its pursuit of autocratic and neoliberal policies.

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IMF complicit in human rights violations resulting from Milei neoliberal and autocratic policies, highlighting the need for international financial architecture democratisation and debt resolution @latindadd.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social

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Civil society demands unconditional debt relief in Jubilee year - Bretton Woods Project In critical Jubilee year, civil society and Global South nations called for debt relief and UN-led debt workout mechanism at FfD4.

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

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Sri Lanka and the IMF: Another stark example of the need for urgent debt restructure reform 17th IMF programme results in severe damaging austerity, as IMF continue to fail to address the root causes of the country’s cyclical debt problems.

In a new guest analysis for our #ObserverSummer25 Charith Gunawardena argues IMF failed approach to debt sustainability and #austerity in Sri Lanka adds evidence for urgent need of IFA reform, including a UN debt workout mechanism #FfD4 #G77

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Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.

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This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇

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