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Transnational Institute,
Reclaiming energy: public pathways to break the fossil fuel cycle
December 2024, Lavinia Steinfort, Rowan Mataram and James Angel

ITUC CSI IGB,
Austerity vs Protection: Labour union’s perspectives on the IMF’s social spending approach

April 2025, Luc Triangle

Oxfam,
Oxfam: IMF Social Spending Floors: A fig leaf for austerity?
April 2023, Kentikelenis, Alexandros, Stubbs, Thomas

Eurodad,
‘End Austerity: A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25’ .
September 2022, by Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins

Financial Transparency Coalition,
‘Recovery at a Crossroads: How Countries Spent Covid-19 Funds’.
September 2022

Center for Economic and Social Rights
Bretton Woods Project, ‘Learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: the World Bank’s macroeconomic policies and women’s rights’consolidation in Ecuador and Pakistan’,
September 2021, by Ella Hopkins of the Bretton Woods Project

Oxfam,
‘The Assault of Austerity’.
2022, Dana Abed (Oxfam) Fatimah Kelleher (Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective)

Center for Economic and Social Rights
Arab Watch Coalition contributed in: ‘Missing Receipts: Where Did International Financial Institutions’ COVID-19 Funding Go?’
January 2022, by Gretchen Gordon

Global and Regional Reports
Nurse Margaret gives an injection to a client at Kawala Health Center IV in Uganda - Action Aid report

ActionAid,
‘The Public Versus Austerity: Why public sector wage bill constraints must end’, October 2021

TNI,
Reclaiming energy: public pathways to break the fossil fuel cycle’, December 2024

Action Aid International Report on Who Cares for the Future: finance gender responsive public services!

ActionAid,
‘Who Cares for the Future: finance gender responsive public services!’ April 2020.

Bretton Woods Project,
‘Financialisation, human rights and the Bretton Woods Institutions: An introduction for civil society organisations’ April 2024.

Christian Aid,
‘Between life and debt’, 16 May 2024

Missing receipts report by Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

Center for Economic and Social Rights
Arab Watch Coalition contributed in: ‘Missing Receipts: Where Did International Financial Institutions’ COVID-19 Funding Go?’, January 2022

Learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: The World Bank's report SEPTEMBER 2021

Bretton Woods Project
Bretton Woods Project, ‘Learning lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: the World Bank’s macroeconomic policies and women’s rights’, September 2021

The IMF and Gender Equality Report October 2017

Bretton Woods Project
The IMF and Gender Equality: A Compendium of Feminist Macroeconomic Critiques, September 2017

Assessing Austerity: Monitoring the Human Rights Impacts of Fiscal Consolidation - Report by CESR org

Center for Economic and Social Rights
Assessing Austerity: Monitoring the human rights impact of fiscal consolidation, February 2018

Eurodad report on Our future is public

Eurodad
‘Our future is public: Why the IMF and World Bank must support public services’ October 2022

Euro dad report on the policy lending doctrine

Eurodad
‘The policy lending doctrine. Development Policy Financing in the World Bank’s Covid-19 response, September 2021

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Daniel Munevar
‘Arrested Development: International Monetary Fund lending and austerity post COVID-19’, Eurodad Report, 2020

Vector about financial transparency and inequality

Financial Transparency Coalition
‘Recovery at a Crossroads: How Countries Spent Covid-19 Funds’ September 2022

Majority minority pie chart art

ITUC
‘Reform the IMF and World Bank to re-build better from COVID-19’, 21 May 2020

End Austerity: A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25 Report by Relief Web

Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
End Austerity: A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25, September 2022

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Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
Austerity: The New Normal – A Renewed Washington Consensus 2010-24’ October 2019

For a decade of hope nor austerity in the middle East and North Africa report

Oxfam
For a decade of hope not austerity in the Middle East and North Africa, August 2020

The Assault of Austerity: How prevailing economic policy choices are a form of gender-based violence - Relief Web Report

Oxfam,
The Assault of Austerity, November 2022

Latin America Report

Latinoamericana por Justicia Económica y Social – Latindadd
LATIN AMERICA: Between debt and the pandemic. Guarded prognosis, 2021

The West Africa inequality crisis: fighting austerity and the pandemic - Oxfam International

Oxfam,
The West Africa inequality crisis: fighting austerity and the pandemic, October 2021

A man sells beans in Ein al Basha vegetable market, Amman, Jordan. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam

Oxfam,
Adding Fuel to Fire: How IMF demands for austerity will drive up inequality worldwide,  August 2021

G2H2 Financial justice report

Wemos and Geneva Global Health Hub,
Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response, November 2022.

The gender impact of IMF policies in Mena Report

Oxfam
The gendered impact of IMF policies in MENA, October 2019.

Country Articles
BWP project: A woman helps her child to wash hands before eating in Tawila, North Darfur. Credit: Albert Gonzalez Farran/UNAMID

Bhumika Muchhala, Vanessa Daza Castillo and Andrea Guillem,
Gendered austerity in the COVID-19 era: A survey of fiscal consolidation in Ecuador and Pakistan, April 2022

Latindadd report on Peru

Latindadd, ‘Debt management:
 Fiscal rules, rights and human development in Peru’, March 2022

Gorana Mlinarević, Nela Porobić Isaković, Christin Chinkin, Jacqui True, Madeleine Rees, Barbro Svedberg
A Feminist Perspective on Post-Conflict Restructuring and Recovery – the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 2017

Briefings & Infographics
Covid 19 virus cell

Center for Economic and Social Research,
Center for Economic and Social Research, ‘Public Financing of Public Services’, Topic 11, November 2020

International Monetary Fund building

Human Rights Watch,
IMF: Scant Transparency for Covid-19 Emergency Loans,  March 2021.

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Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
‘Brief  on Alternatives to Austerity: Fiscal Space and Financing Options for a People’s Recovery’ September 2022.

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Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
‘Brief on Budget Cuts and Austerity Reforms in 2022-25’ September 2022.

Vector about financial transparency and inequality

Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
‘Brief on What Citizens Can Do to End Austerity?’ September 2022.

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