International Financial Institutions

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CGD Podcast: Elevating Women and People of Color to IFI Leadership with Amie Batson and Francisco Ferreira
October 05, 2023
Only one woman born and raised in a low- or middle-income country has ever headed an international financial institution. CGD's Eeshani Kandpal speaks with Francisco Ferreira from the London School of Economics and Amie Batson from WomenLift Health about what effective mentorship and allyship can lo...
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CGD Podcast: Accelerating MDB Reform with Stephanie von Friedeburg
July 27, 2023
Stephanie von Friedeburg of Citi and formerly the International Finance Corporation joins CGD’s Karen Mathiasen and Clemence Landers for a conversation on how to balance risk and impact in investment, why blended finance needs a rethink, and what mechanisms offer the most promising solutions to the ...
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Inside the Development Leader's Conference 2021: Carin Jämtin and Alexia Latortue on the CGD Podcast
November 23, 2021
CGD's Masood Ahmed speaks with Sida's Carin Jämtin and MCC's Alexia Latortue about their takeaways from the 2021 Development Leaders Conference, including the tensions between national and global challenges, how development agency leaders can address them, and what these decisions might mean for age...
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Three Ways New SDRs Can Support the IMF’s Lending to Low-income Countries
April 29, 2021
The decision to allocate $650 billion of special drawing rights from the International Monetary Fund to the global economy is welcome. One way to use this extra ration of global liquidity will be to bolster the concessional lending pot the IMF has to help low-income countries—the Poverty R...
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Renewing US Multilateral Engagement for a More Effective Approach to Fragile States
April 21, 2021
Even before the Biden-Harris administration took office, they made clear that one of their top international priorities would be renewing the United States’ commitment to multilateralism. Within the international financial institutions (IFIs)—the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—...
CGD NOTES
Forging an MDB System: Strategy and Governance
April 20, 2021
The need for collaboration and cooperation across the multilateral development banks (MDBs) seems obvious. Donor governments set up these institutions to multiply their development dollars, to concentrate global development expertise, and to spread knowledge and evidence of effective development pol...
CGD NOTES
Can Special Drawing Rights Be Recycled to Where They Are Needed at No Budgetary Cost?
April 20, 2021
In this note, David Andrews looks at one mechanism that could work for using excess SDRs to the benefit of low- and middle-income countries: donating them. It is a simple idea but hardly straightforward, as he demonstrates with a “case study” of how the United Kingdom might do this. The UK’s rules g...