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WORKING PAPERS
Finance for International Development (FID): A New Measure to Compare Traditional and Emerging Provider Countries’ Official Development Finance Efforts, and Some Provisional Results
Ian Mitchell et al.
April 09, 2020
In this working paper we present a new indicator—Finance for International Development (FID)—that attempts to fill this gap by measuring in a comparable way the flows of official, cross-border concessional finance provided by 40 major economies
Blog Post
A New Measure of Finance for International Development
Ian Mitchell et al.
April 09, 2020
In a new working paper, we aim to address this gap with a new measure of cross-border, concessional finance—Finance for International Development (FID). FID is designed to be a measure which is more consistent across all development actors—going beyond just OECD members.
Multimedia
Citizens and States
March 31, 2020
The clock is ticking on the SDGs. Integrating digital tools—like mobile phones, states IDs, and financial services—can help us meet them. 
Blog Post
Where Policy and Research Meet: Takeaways from Workshops on CGD's New Policy Decision Tree for Financial Inclusion
Liliana Rojas-Suarez et al.
November 18, 2019
On October 10, CGD, in collaboration with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), held a workshop in Mexico City to discuss CGD’s innovative tool that serves to diagnose the crucial impediments to digital financial inclusion in specific country contexts. There, we shared a draft of CGD’s&nb...
WORKING PAPERS
Are the Pacific Islands Insurable? Challenges and Opportunities for Disaster Risk Finance
Vijaya Ramachandran
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Junaid Sadiq Masood
September 20, 2019
There are several efforts underway in the Pacific Islands to insure public and private assets against natural disasters such as cyclones and earthquakes. These efforts are designed to mitigate the annual costs of such disasters which range from a few percent to over 50 percent of GDP.  However,...
Blog Post
Foreign Private Investment in Low-Income Countries: More Important Than You Think
Nancy Lee
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Asad Sami
July 24, 2019
In a world of stagnating public aid, limited fiscal space, and rising public debt in low-income countries, can they realistically expect to rely more on private finance from foreigners?
Blog Post
Congress Spotlights the World Bank’s Private Sector Subsidies
Charles Kenny
April 10, 2019
Yesterday, the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing with US Secretary of the Treasury Stephen Mnuchin on the international financial system. Chairwoman Maxine Waters opened the session with a strong statement on the World Bank’s $2.5 billion IDA Private Sector Window ...