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Will you be at the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings 2026 (12 to 16 October) in Bangkok?

Join us to discuss how the World Bank, IMF and other multilateral development banks can make financing more affordable, ease debt distress and support sustainable development and a just energy transition in the Global South.

Attendance requires accreditation for the event.

Moderator: 

Daniela Berdeja, Debt Analyst and Manager of the LAC Vulnerability Atlas, Latindadd

Speakers:

  • Bodo Ellmers, Mamaging Director, Global Policy Forum (GPF) Europe
  • Catherine Mithia, Policy Officer, Sovereign Debt Management, AFRODAD
  • Seh [...]

Publications

The debate over a global development agenda beyond 2030 has begun. One lesson should shape it from the outset: Ambitious goals are meaningless without the means to achieve them. 

The 2030 Agenda was underfunded from the beginning: The financial framework the international community could agree on were never sufficient to make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievable. The promised "billions to trillions" model - assuming that a few billion in public finance would mobilise trillions in private investment - never mobilised private capital at anywhere near the scale required. 

Ten years [...]

Global health faces a profound structural crisis as public funding cuts and rising inequalities threaten the human right to health, leaving 4.5 billion people without basic services. Many now see an opportunity to bring in private actors to close the funding gap, with little critical scrutiny. Against this backdrop, Brot für die Welt, Global Policy Forum Europe and Misereor have outlined six theses on the role of private actors in global health, offering clear, actionable recommendations for the German government.
This briefing assesses the outcomes of the 2026 UN Financing for Development Forum, examining whether it delivered meaningful progress on implementing the Sevilla commitments or reflected broader paralysis in global economic governance. It finds that the forum largely failed to advance implementation, with weak outcomes, misplaced priorities in the agenda, and growing divergence among Member States limiting progress.

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This photo of SDGs on the beach was taken during the GEF meeting in Sri Lanka. Photo by Mike Akester, 2016.

For several weeks now, Germany has been engaged in an intense debate about the welfare state. This was triggered by a statement made by Chancellor Merz of the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) state party conference at the end of August: “We simply can no longer afford the system we have today.” Specifically, he wants to cut welfare payments and relieve the burden on the pension funds by making it more attractive to work into old age.