2025
International Financial Architecture Review
December 4, 2025 | Patrick Achi, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Mark Malloch-Brown
Facing Up to the Future: Navigating Disruption, Building Trust
This report makes recommendations to the Bretton Woods Institutions, emphasizing the importance of country ownership, scaled up finance, and modernized governance. Prepared for the Bretton Woods Initiative at 80, it seeks to ensure the IMF and the World Bank adapt and remain fit for purpose in a changing world order.
2024
April 8, 2024 | Wafa Abedin, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Hafez Ghanem, Eswar Prasad, and Marilou Uy
Reforms for a 21st-Century Global Financial Architecture
The authors distill findings and recommendations from an inclusive, multistakeholder process on reforming the international financial architecture and strengthening the multilateral system.
2023
October 13, 2023 | G20 Independent Experts Group
The Triple Agenda: A Roadmap for Better, Bolder and Bigger MDBs
A world on fire requires the multilateral development banks to be at center stage in creating an effective response and bringing diverse actors to support a shared agenda of transformative development. MDBs have a distinctive comparative advantage in playing a catalytic role in fostering government and private sector investments.
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October 23rd, 2023 | Kevin P. Gallagher
Reforming Bretton Woods Institutions to Achieve Climate Change and Development Goals
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June 20, 2023 | Reporting by Simon Jessop and Leigh Thomas; Editing by Christina Fincher
Explainer: What is the 'Bridgetown Initiative' asking for at Paris financial summit?
President Macron hosts a summit in Paris this week to discuss reform of the world's multilateral finance institutions in the face of climate change and other development challenges.
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May 9, 2023 | Kristine Liao
What Is the Bridgetown Initiative? What to Know About the Game-Changing Plan for Climate Finance
Led by Barbados PM Mia Mottley, the Bridgetown Initiative aims to unlock climate finance.