MDB Reform
Parminder BrarWriting on how multilateral institutions actually work—across the World Bank, IMF, and IFC. Based on field experience in Africa and South Asia, with over 25 years of direct engagement in governance and accountability processes.
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The WBG Architecture Is the Problem
Three events in the first half of 2026 produced a documentary record that makes the World Bank Group’s governance problem harder to ignore than it has been.
In March, the World Bank cancelled its $1.52 billion Power Sector Recovery Program...
Does the World Bank Learn from Project Failures?
Between 1991 and 2025, the World Bank approved eight major water sector operations in Nigeria totalling $1.8 billion. Six rated below Satisfactory by IEG. One Satisfactory — a $5 million community-managed pilot. The Eighth — SURWASH, $700 m...
MIGA
The MIGA Record — What the IEG Data Shows, What the Portfolio Reveals, and What the Board Must Answer
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In 2024, the World Bank Group made one of its most consequential institutional decisions in a decade. It restructured its...
The World Bank's Shocking Transport Sector Record in Africa: 2015 - 2026
The Foundation That Does Not Hold
The World Bank committed $11.2 billion to transport in Africa. By every measure, the portfolio has failed.
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This is as per the World Bank’s own Independent Evaluation Group. Sixty F...
The World Bank's Energy Record in Africa
The World Bank just committed to electrifying 300 million people in Africa by 2030. The target is not just a stretch target. It is an impossible target given its track record over the last decade.
The delivery platform achieves 33% Sat...
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Over the past twenty-five years I have worked with the World Bank, IMF, and IFC. This publication is a space to share what that experience taught me about what works in the field. The full archive is at mdbreform.com. — Parminder Brar
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