Packed room for our CSPF event on green conditionalities and climate policy interventions by the World Bank and IMF

'The ensuing set of reforms became known as 'structural adjustment' policies, & they are often very difficult to reverse—this is indeed part of their appeal to the IMF.'

NEW: Alexandros Kentikelenis & Thomas Stubbs on the debate around IMF conditionality.

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Two amazing Global South progressives and a Nobel prize winner walk into an Oxfam panel on post-neoliberalism

New report with Lumière Synergie pour le Développement analysing initial experience with the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust shows evidence of concern: the IMF is promoting green austerity, privatisation of energy generation, and fossil fuel expansion in Kenya and Senegal. re-course.org/newsupdates/ne…

Always a good bunch of charts on debt in the IMF’s 'Macroeoconomic Developments and Prospects in Low Income Countries'

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On Tues., May 7, tune in for a discussion moderated by Becky Ray with Alexandros Kentikelenis + @ThomStubbs on their latest book, “A Thousand Cuts,' austerity and how @IMFnews might better support social protection.

Register to attend: gdpcenter.org/4cydgWc

Proud to speak out for a better world without #austerity at the #WorldSocialForum with Amitabh Behar Matti Kohonen +others

This is a world awash with money -there are at least 9 financing alternatives for #publicservices #universalsocialprotection
#EndAusterity World Social Forum 2024 Nepal

Delighted to see the first part of my dissertation published in International Affairs! Thread to follow in the next few days🗓️

I've been getting a lot of questions about why exactly the outcomes of the IMF's 16th #quota review will make it more difficult to make its governance more fair and representative in future.

It's a little tricky, so here's my best shot at it:

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Many thanks, Wes Streeting MP.

Have to say I really didn't have 'stop exploiting those patients you see dying in corridors in horrifically overwhelmed A&Es' on this year's Christmas list.

Please consider reading this short thread in response to your Sunday Times interview. 1/n

IMF published this week its Operational Guidance Note on the RST after more than 11 arrangements. The menu of policy conditionalities includes natural resource pricing, the creation of water markets, and energy tariff hikes.
3 reasons why this Guidance Note is problematic:
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This book is the strongest and most damning criticism of IMF-mandated austerity policies that I've come across.

It shows how IMF interventions in the global South between 1980 and 2019 have decreased the availability of social services, contributed to increasing income

Join us tomorrow for a broad discussion on austerity, social protection and the future of global economic governance!

1pm NYC time / 7pm Central European Time

❌The IMF fails to properly assess the need for fiscal space for green and just transition in two of the largest fossil fuel exporters.

Our new report published with Trend Asia GFLAC Senik Centre Asia shows slow progress in the IMF’s Climate Change Strategy surveillance

330 CSOs, trade unions and academics call upon governments, Ministries of Finance and International Financial Institutions to #endausterity and urge to implement financing alternativesat the #AM2023

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Join us next Tuesday @ 1pm ET to discuss austerity, social protection, and the future of global economic governance!

Register here: bit.ly/thousandcutsbo…

📢 Finally available world-wide:
𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬: 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲

@ThomStubbs and I document the impact of 40 years of IMF-mandated austerity policies on the Global South.

What do we find?🧵

The irony of wealth becoming a magnet for problems. The sorry tale of #Niger . #nigercoup #theconversation RH Research RHUL Politics and IR

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Will ECOWAS invade Niger?

A deep dive into the intricate dynamics at play. Read it here: (theconversation.com/niger-coup-wes…). #NigerCoup #ECOWAS #PoliticalAnalysis Thomas Stubbs

NEW: Our new report shows IMF's 'short-term thinking' as it fails to mainstream climate

❌The IMF endorses LNG expansion and budget cuts under the RST in Bangladesh

❌The IMF supports oil extraction and investments in infrastructure in Uganda

More here: bit.ly/443q6GE