ITUC CSI IGB, Austerity vs Protection: Labour union’s perspectives on the IMF’s social spending approach
April 2025, Luc Triangle
Financial Transparency Coalition & ACT Alliance, Righting the economy. Towards a People’s Recovery from Economic and Environmental Crisis. May 2024, by Marianna Leite and Matti Kohonen
Global and Regional Reports
End Austerity, ‘Austerity Amid Instability: Europe’s Risky Fiscal Gamble‘, April 2025
TNI, ‘Reclaiming energy: public pathways to break the fossil fuel cycle’, December 2024
Center for Economic and Social Rights Arab Watch Coalition contributed in: ‘Missing Receipts: Where Did International Financial Institutions’ COVID-19 Funding Go?’, January 2022
Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, End Austerity: A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25, September 2022
Financial Transparency Coalition ‘Recovery at a Crossroads: How Countries Spent Covid-19 Funds’ September 2022
ActionAid, ‘The Public Versus Austerity: Why public sector wage bill constraints must end’, October 2021
Latinoamericana por Justicia Económica y Social – Latindadd LATIN AMERICA: Between debt and the pandemic. Guarded prognosis, 2021
Daniel Munevar ‘Arrested Development: International Monetary Fund lending and austerity post COVID-19’, Eurodad Report, 2020
Oxfam For a decade of hope not austerity in the Middle East and North Africa, August 2020
Action Aid, ‘The human cost of public cuts in Africa’, May 2025
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
Eurodad ‘Our future is public: Why the IMF and World Bank must support public services’ October 2022
Oxfam, The Assault of Austerity, November 2022
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
Oxfam, Adding Fuel to Fire: How IMF demands for austerity will drive up inequality worldwide, August 2021
Oxfam, The West Africa inequality crisis: fighting austerity and the pandemic, October 2021
ActionAid, ‘Who Cares for the Future: finance gender responsive public services!’ April 2020.
Oxfam The gendered impact of IMF policies in MENA, October 2019.
Country Articles
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, ‘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
End Austerity, ‘Austerity By Design: How the IMFFuels Inequality’ April 2025
Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
‘Brief on Alternatives to Austerity: Fiscal Space and Financing Options for a People’s Recovery’ September 2022.
Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, ‘Brief on Budget Cuts and Austerity Reforms in 2022-25’ September 2022.
MenaFem, ‘Austerity in Egypt: Gendered Effects and Disproportional Harm’ May 2025.
Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins,
‘Brief on What Citizens Can Do to End Austerity?’ September 2022.
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