As the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group proceed, we look into their pandemic responses that continue to be driven by debt and big private finance, and a “recovery” agenda that champions the revival of capital accumulation. It is important for peoples’ movements and civil society to take a strong stand against the IMF-World Bank’s dominance to be able to move away from neoliberal policies that have only benefitted monopoly capitalist corporations at the expense of people’s rights, and for people-centred, transformative, and sustainable development.