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IDA will likely face a wave of client graduations over the next 10-15 years, even under conservative assumptions. Projections from a recent CGD paper by Todd Moss and Ben Leo suggest that by 2025, IDA’s client base will be less than half its current size and almost entirely African, creating major implications for IDA’s operational model, future replenishments, its relationship with other multilaterals, and more.
In 2011 the Center for Global Development launched the Future of IDA Working Group, an effort to bring together serious scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to think through specific options for World Bank management and shareholders to consider. The group has been tasked with thinking through the implications for the business model of IDA as it faces a rapidly approaching wave of graduates, including some of its largest and best-performing clients.
The group aims to produce recommendations available as input to the IDA-16 Mid-Term Review in the fall of 2012.
This work follows previous CGD efforts to shape the World Bank, including the “The Hardest Job in the World: Five Crucial Tasks for the New President of the World Bank,” and a report prepared ahead of the IDA 15 negotiations, “The World Bank’s Work in The Poorest Countries: Five Recommendations for a New IDA.”
Working Group Members:
Jean-Michel Severino (Chair)
Todd Moss (Project Director)
Owen Barder
Nancy Birdsall
Francois Bourguignon
Jessica Einhorn
Alan Gelb
Manuel Hinds
Stephen Howes
Ravi Kanbur
Devesh Kapur
Ben Leo
William Lyakurwa
Callisto Madavo
Ng’andu Magande
Elene Makonnen
Pradeep Mehta
Juan Antonio Morales Anaya
Vijaya Ramachandran
Enrique Rueda-Sabater
Andy Sumner
Finn Tarp
Jacques van der Gaag
Shengman Zhang
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By 2025, the number of IDA client countries will likely shrink substantially and primarily be smaller in size and overwhelmingly African. This working paper predicts how these changes will impact IDA's operational and financial models and recommends the World Bank begin addressing the implications...
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This paper offers a proposal to improve performance-based allocation systems of International Development Association (IDA) donors and others to better address the needs of fragile states and better link development allocations with performance.
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With high deficits across the developed world, aid budgets are tight and likely to remain so. However, a simple change in how the World Bank organizes its lending could free up an extra $7.5 billion for the world’s poorest countries over the next three years. My guest on this Wonkcast is Ben Leo,...
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CGD research fellow Ben Leo estimates that the World Bank could provide an extra $7.5 billion to the poorest countries over the next three years by adjusting the balance sheets of IDA and IBRD, its main lending arms.
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Donald Kaberuka, the new president of the African Development Bank, leads an institution whose financial standing has been restored from the near collapse of 1995, but whose operational credibility remains a work-in-progress. This CGD working group report offers external, independent advice to...
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This new report by a group comprising several of Latin America's most influential economic policymakers, CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas Suarez, and CGD president Nancy Birdsall suggests ways for the IDB to become more flexible and to step up its support for market oriented reforms. The IDB's new...
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By 2025, the number of IDA client countries will likely shrink substantially and primarily be smaller in size and overwhelmingly African. This working paper predicts how these changes will impact IDA's operational and financial models and recommends the World Bank begin addressing the implications...
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Donald Kaberuka, the new president of the African Development Bank, leads an institution whose financial standing has been restored from the near collapse of 1995, but whose operational credibility remains a work-in-progress. This CGD working group report offers external, independent advice to...
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CGD research fellow Ben Leo estimates that the World Bank could provide an extra $7.5 billion to the poorest countries over the next three years by adjusting the balance sheets of IDA and IBRD, its main lending arms.
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This new report by a group comprising several of Latin America's most influential economic policymakers, CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas Suarez, and CGD president Nancy Birdsall suggests ways for the IDB to become more flexible and to step up its support for market oriented reforms. The IDB's new...
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This paper offers a proposal to improve performance-based allocation systems of International Development Association (IDA) donors and others to better address the needs of fragile states and better link development allocations with performance.
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With high deficits across the developed world, aid budgets are tight and likely to remain so. However, a simple change in how the World Bank organizes its lending could free up an extra $7.5 billion for the world’s poorest countries over the next three years. My guest on this Wonkcast is Ben Leo,...
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Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe As director for Europe, Owen Barder is leading CGD's effort to internationalize its policy outreach. His research focuses on transparency and accountability in aid and the political economy of development policies. He was a British civil servant for more than 20 years and is the former director of...
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Nancy Birdsall, President Nancy Birdsall is the Center for Global Development's founding president. From 1993 to 1998, she was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio. Before that she...
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Alan Gelb, Senior Fellow Alan’s recent research includes aid and development outcomes, the transition from planned to market economies, and the special development challenges of resource-rich countries. He was previously director of development policy at the World Bank and chief economist for the Bank’s Africa region.
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Devesh Kapur, Non-Resident Fellow Devesh Kapur is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Study of India, he holds the Madan Lal Sobti Professorship for the Study of Contemporary India, and he is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines local-global linkages in political...
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Todd Moss, Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow Todd Moss works on U.S.-Africa relations and financial issues facing sub-Saharan Africa, including policies that affect private capital flows, natural resource management, debt, and aid. He oversees the Center’s fundraising efforts and relations with external partners.
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Vijaya Ramachandran, Senior Fellow Vijaya Ramachandran's areas of expertise include private-sector development, entrepreneurship, and foreign direct investment. She also manages CGD's work on fragile states, which focuses on the delivery of post-conflict assistance. Her latest book is Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the...
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Enrique J. Rueda-Sabater, Visiting Fellow Enrique J. Rueda-Sabater is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development and senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. His career has as alternated (and sometimes combined) business strategy and economic development.
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Andy Sumner, Visiting Fellow Andy Sumner's research relates to poverty, inequality, and well-being, with particular focus on poverty indicators, global trends, and debates about the Millennium Development Goals. He is a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.
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