Spring Meetings

African Sovereign Debt Justice Network’s Statement on the 2023 Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank

Ahead of the 2023 International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings, the African Sovereign Debt Justice Network (AfSDJN); the Pan-African Lawyers Union, (PALU); the African Forum for Debt and Development (Afrodad); NAWI Afrifem Macroeconomics; the Jesuit Justice Ecology Network Africa, (JENA); BudgiT; Ongolo; African International Economic Law Network, (AfIELN); and the Third World Forum, call upon the IMF and the World Bank to increase concessional financing for climate action and address urgent liquidity needs of African countries without exacerbating their indebtedness.