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IDA-20: Donors Must Go Big, and IDA Must Too
Clemence Landers
April 01, 2021
The time is now for a historic IDA replenishment. The world’s poorest countries’ recovery from the COVID-19 economic downturn will largely hinge on the scale of the emergency relief and investment programs over the next few years.
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$1.9 Trillion and No Money for the Multilateral Development Banks?
Nancy Lee et al.
March 22, 2021
The Biden administration and the Congress rightly went big in the recently passed American Rescue Plan at a time of tremendous need. The package was appropriately focused on the domestic side, but it did not neglect the rest of the world. One might reasonably ask then why $1 billion or $2 billi...
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A Climate-Dedicated Capital Increase at the World Bank and IFC
Charles Kenny
and
Scott Morris
March 15, 2021
With a new US administration rejoining the Paris Agreement and the upcoming Glasgow climate conference set to endorse a new set of national commitments to greenhouse gas emissions, there is renewed momentum in the struggle to limit climate change and its global impact. But global finance to support ...
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The Best of 2020: What We Read While the World Burned Around Us (Research Edition)
Ranil Dissanayake
and
Susannah Hares
December 18, 2020
We’ve picked our favourite papers and articles about development of the year, picking pieces that help us understand the problems we’re working on better and how best to fix them.