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A Review of the Mid-Term Review of the IDA Private Sector Window
December 13, 2018
A few weeks ago, the World Bank’s soft-lending arm IDA held the mid-term review of its 18th round of funding. As background for the meeting, the World Bank produced a status update of the new IDA Private Sector Window (PSW) that I have blogged about before. The update ...
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Three Lessons from the World Bank’s New Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators Database
December 05, 2018
On Tuesday, the World Bank announced the launch of a new database to characterize the quality and composition of the public sector in 115 countries. At this point, you might be thinking: “Who decided that we needed another country-level index?” Fear not!
TESTIMONY
Coming to Terms with China at the World Bank and in Development Finance
December 03, 2018
Scott Morris testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy at a hearing titled “Multilateral Economic Institutions and US Foreign Policy” o...
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Answering the World Bank’s $75 Billion Question
November 09, 2018
Next week in Zambia, donors to the World Bank’s financing window for low-income countries, the International Development Association (IDA), meet to discuss IDA’s future. This “mid-term review” is both a stocktaking session and a teeing up of the next round of fundraising for ...
Blog Post
IDA Funding for Refugees and Hosts: 5 Ways to Improve and Why We Need More
Sarah Charles et al.
November 06, 2018
On average, a refugee is displaced for 10 years, and after being displaced for five years, the average jumps to more than 20 years. The world could no longer ignore this reality in 2015, when more than one million asylum seekers and migrants arrived to Europe seeking refuge and opportunity. The...
CGD NOTES
Five Ways to Improve the World Bank Funding for Refugees and Hosts in Low-Income Countries and Why These Dedicated Resources Matter More than Ever
Sarah Charles et al.
November 05, 2018
For too long, the international community has accepted the convenient fiction that refugee crises are temporary.
Blog Post
Redesigning the IDA Private Sector Window for Impact: Some Principles and Potential Practices
November 05, 2018
I have previously suggested that the current design of the $2.5 billion World Bank/IDA Private Sector Window (PSW) seemed an inefficient use of scarce aid resources, didn’t follow the World Bank’s own guidance on disclosure and design of subsidies to the private secto...