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Lending Practices of the Private Sector Window: How Effective are They?
March 10, 2020
The Private Sector Window (PSW) takes resources from the World Bank’s soft lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), and uses it to support private sector investments in poorer developing countries.This is a comparatively straightforward way for the IFC to move money, but it is h...
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The IFC Should Get a Capital Increase, but More Reform Should Be Part of the Package
March 05, 2020
I’m not convinced that the IFC will manage to deliver on all of the promises it is making in order to receive the funds. And I think that congressional concerns with the IFC’s use of aid in an attempt to meet lending targets are right. So, reform should come alongside resources. 
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The Greek Tragedy of America and International Finance
February 19, 2020
Increasingly, Washington views international financial organizations as weapons in the global struggle for the neoliberal economic model against China’s state-led approach to development. And often, the international financial institutions are the battlefield itself, in a conflict over voting s...
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What David Malpass Gets Wrong about the Asian Development Bank
February 14, 2020
This week, World Bank president David Malpass took the unusual step of calling out the bank’s peer institutions, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and African Development Bank, for lending irresponsibly into unsustainable debt environments.
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The World Bank’s Uncivil War on Corporate Tax
January 28, 2020
A broad array of international actors agrees that many developing countries desperately need to collect more tax revenue. But one part of the World Bank is pushing in the other direction.
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The US and China Have Very Different Takes on IDA and the Global Fund: Why that Matters for the Future of Multilateral Aid
December 19, 2019
When it comes to the United States, the reality is that the Global Fund is winning the fundraising game hands down. China, meanwhile, doubled its contribution to IDA—contrast that with the country’s longstanding indifference to the Global Fund. Clearly the world’s most important em...
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Is CGD Marxist? Responding to Red-Baiting from the World Bank
November 13, 2019
While Djankov railed against our criticism of Doing Business’s ideological slant, he failed to respond whatsoever to the data-based, methodological points we raised about the Doing Business index. Whatever the ideological leanings of CGD staff, when confronted with data and code questioning ou...