India, Oct. 16 -- ActionAid International issued a response dated Oct. 15, 2026, to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, featuring comments from Roos Saalbrink, ActionAid’s Lead on Economic Justice; Wangari Kinoti, ActionAid’s Lead on Women’s Rights and Feminist Alternatives; and Bertha Kabengele, Programmes and Policy Lead at ActionAid Zambia.
Debt and inequality comments
Roos Saalbrink said the International Monetary Fund’s warning on “rising debt and widening inequality” at the meetings in Bangkok had come “far too late” and with “far too little actual actions attached to it.”
Saalbrink said communities had “long been living with the consequences of high borrowing costs and debt repayments crowdin...