World Without World Bank Date: 21st April, 2022 Venue: Seminar Hall II, Kamla Devi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi Theme: World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles Register to attend: https://forms.gle/AfGiUHjVjZCXgGGz8 Introduction The World Bank and IMF are having their Spring Meetings virtually from the 22nd to 24th of April, 2022 …
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As the 13th BRICS Summit was recently held and chaired by India, the People’s Forum on BRICS (a network of people’s movements, progressive civil society organizations, and trade unions) is convening a 5-day online People’s Summit on BRICS from 18th to 22nd October, 2021.
18th -22nd October, 2021; India Register for organising panels on various thematic areas by 24th of September, 2021. The People’s BRICS Forum 2021 is being convened to articulate people’s agenda and learn from each other. As the People’s BRICS will be organised online, we encourage various progressive civil society organisations people’s movements and, trade unions …
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The 13th BRICS Summit, chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by Brazil President Jair Bolsanaro, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping was held in a virtual format yesterday. While the summit’s focus was on the pandemic, multilaterliam and counter terrorism, activists state that the summit was exclusionary, failing to address complex issues facing the world today and BRICS countries.
inning in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, G20 started convening as an informal group of economically significant countries, now accounting for 85 percent of the world economy, 75 percent of global trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population, including more than half of the world’s poor and marginalized. The G-20 has the mandate to promote global economic growth, international trade, and regulation of financial markets. G20 along with Multilateral Development Banks shape the global financial architecture, with G20 being in a position to dictate the direction taken by IMF and MDBs.
World Without World Bank Action Week India - 5th to 9th April 2021 Context The World Bank and IMF are having their Spring Meetings(virtual) from the 5th to 9th April , 2021 where these institutions will go ahead and laud themselves for the achievement of dolling out billions of dollars for supporting economies through the …
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Action Week on World Bank Brings Together Social & Political Activists, Probing their Past and Demanding AccountabilityPress Release | October 16, 2020 New Delhi: A key message reverberating in the week long protest action was that a World Without World Bank is possible. Participated by people’s movements, civil society groups, senior political and social activists …
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Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings Date: 12 October, 2020 New Delhi: People’s Movements, Civil Society Groups, and concerned citizens are coming together to protest the World Bank’s policies, interventions and impacts which negatively impacted the Indian economy as a whole, and in particular in some key sectors, …
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Action Week -India; 12th to 16th October, 2020 Context The World Bank Group (WBG) continues to be the lead Multilateral Development Bank defining development and reshaping policies and economies to fit the neo liberal agenda. COVID-19 has provided the Bank a window to reinvent its relevance through support to countries in fighting the pandemic. This …
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released two updates in the month of June – first was the World Economic Outlook, titled A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery and another was the Financial Stability Report. These reports and updates are some of the most watched reports by economists, policymakers and businesses. The earlier Economic Outlook in …
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