The Bretton Woods Project (BWP) is a UK-based NGO that challenges the World Bank and IMF and promotes alternative approaches. BWP serves as an information provider, watchdog, networker and advocate.

Publications

Bretton Woods Project. (18 October 2023) IFI Governance: ‘Marrakech Annual Meetings Wrap-up 2023: Bretton Woods Institutions wilt in the desert, as ‘pragmatism’ fails to resolve urgent crises’.
Bretton Woods Project (4 October 2023). Gender: ‘WBG gender strategy risks undermining new human rights language with continued private sector bias.’
Bretton Woods Project (19 July 2023). Gender: ‘Gender progress at risk as new World Bank president enters pushing private-sector focus.’
IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings Civil Society Forum session: Creating a Caring Economy: The role of IFIs and the CEDAW framework in transformative change. Organised by International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, Third World Network, International Domestic Workers Federation, Bretton Woods Project, Shirakat – Partnership for Development, Womankind Worldwide, Global Alliance for Tax Justice (23 March 2021).

‘Austerity Policies Overwhelmingly Undermine Women's Rights’: Emma Bürgisser (25 March 2021).
Hopkins, E. and Bürgisser, E. (2020). ‘Rethinking the global financial system for gender-equal economies.’ Women’s Budget Group.
Hopkis, E. (25 November 2020). ‘Why the G20’s failure on debt cancellation is bad news for women’. OpenDemocracy.
Webinar: IFIs and Using Country Systems - Implications for Gender Equality. Organised by PWESCR on behalf of BRICS Feminist Watch and in partnership with the South Centre, IWRAW Asia Pacific, the Inequality Movement and Gen Dev Centre for Research and Innovation (20 October 2020)
Hopkins, E. and Bürgisser, E. (2020). ‘Rethinking the global financial system for gender-equal economies.’ Women’s Budget Group.
Hopkins, E. (2019). ‘The World Bank and gender equality Development Policy Financing.’ Bretton Woods Project.
Bürgisser, E. (2019). ‘The IMF and Gender Equality: Operationalising Change.’ Bretton Woods Project.
Bürgisser, E. and Nissan, S. (2017). ‘Positioning women’s rights and gender equality in the macroeconomic policy environment.’ In The IMF and Gender Equality: A Compendium of Feminist Macroeconomic Critiques pp. 9-16. Bretton Woods Project.
Bürgisser, E. (2017). ‘The IMF’s role in creating an enabling macroeconomic environment for women’s rights and gender equality.’ In The IMF and Gender Equality: A Compendium of Feminist Macroeconomic Critiques pp. 50-55. Bretton Woods Project.
Bürgisser, E. and Nissan, S. (2016). ‘The IMF and Gender A Critical Analysis.’ Bretton Woods Project.

Amy McShane

Currently based in: United Kingdom
Publications and resources:
- Strub, F. and McShane, A. (2022). ‘World Bank and IMF must recognize and challenge austerity dogma as a form of gender-based violence’. Oxfam International.