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Guillermo Perry

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Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief)
Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms
Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility

Non-Resident Fellow

Macroeconomics, public finance, international trade and finance, financial policy, energy policy and inequality

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Education: Ph.D. studies in Economics and Operational Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Guillermo Perry is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. He was chief economist of the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank from 1996 to 2007. Before joining the World Bank, Perry served his native country, Colombia, in various capacities: he was minister of finance and public credit; minister of mining and energy; director of national taxes; and deputy director of the Departamento Nacional de Planeación y Consejo Nacional de Política Económica (CONPES). He was also a member of the Constitutional Assembly (1991) and of the Senate of the Republic (1990).

Perry has been the director of two of Colombia’s leading economic think-tanks, Fedesarrollo and the Center for Economic Development Studies.He is currently the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at Harvard Kennedy School.

New Popular Books Other CGD Pubs Events Selected Works

Growing Business a Development Priority? (Event Video) - Apr 27, 2011

A growing share of the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs) business involves private firms. Lending to, investing in and guaranteeing private firms accounted for more than a third of MDB financial operations in 2008, up from less than a fifth at the start of the decade. What’s driving this...
Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms - Apr 11, 2011

Private sector lending by international financial institutions (IFIs) is soaring. Guillermo Perry finds it’s a mixed bag and suggests improvements, including more support to small and medium firms and avoidance of procyclical lending.
Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief) - Apr 11, 2011

Guillermo Perry assesses whether arguments in favor of such MDB direct support are valid and whether MDBs are living up to priorities coherent with such arguments and finds that they do so only partially.
Beyond Lending Book Launch (Event) - Jun 1, 2009

In this video, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry launches his book "Beyond Lending," providing a timely reminder that multilateral development banks should move beyond lending to provide innovative risk-management tools for developing countries to manage volatility in pursuit of sustained...
Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility - May 13, 2009

In this timely new book, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry proposes an innovative risk-management toolkit for multilateral banks to help developing countries become more stable, prosperous, and resilient to external shocks. The book is an important reminder of why the multilaterals must move...

Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms - Apr 11, 2011

Private sector lending by international financial institutions (IFIs) is soaring. Guillermo Perry finds it’s a mixed bag and suggests improvements, including more support to small and medium firms and avoidance of procyclical lending.
Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief) - Apr 11, 2011

Guillermo Perry assesses whether arguments in favor of such MDB direct support are valid and whether MDBs are living up to priorities coherent with such arguments and finds that they do so only partially.
Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility - May 13, 2009

In this timely new book, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry proposes an innovative risk-management toolkit for multilateral banks to help developing countries become more stable, prosperous, and resilient to external shocks. The book is an important reminder of why the multilaterals must move...
Growing Business a Development Priority? (Event Video) - Apr 27, 2011

A growing share of the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs) business involves private firms. Lending to, investing in and guaranteeing private firms accounted for more than a third of MDB financial operations in 2008, up from less than a fifth at the start of the decade. What’s driving this...
Beyond Lending Book Launch (Event) - Jun 1, 2009

In this video, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry launches his book "Beyond Lending," providing a timely reminder that multilateral development banks should move beyond lending to provide innovative risk-management tools for developing countries to manage volatility in pursuit of sustained...

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Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility - May 13, 2009

In this timely new book, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry proposes an innovative risk-management toolkit for multilateral banks to help developing countries become more stable, prosperous, and resilient to external shocks. The book is an important reminder of why the multilaterals must move...

Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief) - Apr 11, 2011

Guillermo Perry assesses whether arguments in favor of such MDB direct support are valid and whether MDBs are living up to priorities coherent with such arguments and finds that they do so only partially.
Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms - Apr 11, 2011

Private sector lending by international financial institutions (IFIs) is soaring. Guillermo Perry finds it’s a mixed bag and suggests improvements, including more support to small and medium firms and avoidance of procyclical lending.

Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms - Apr 15, 2011
The Center for Global Development presents GROWING BUSINESS OR DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY? Multilateral Development Banks direct support to private firms Featuring Guillermo Perry Center for Global Development With Discussant Michael Klein John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard...
Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility - May 21, 2009
Developing countries are susceptible to many kinds of risks—from liquidity shocks and terms of trade volatility to natural disasters. The economic crisis is a reminder that dealing with external risks is a formidable challenge to economic development. The crisis, largely a product of the rich...