The World Bank’s COVID Response

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World Bank Budget Support in the Time of COVID: Crisis Finance… with Strings Attached
Clemence Landers
and
Rakan Aboneaaj
July 08, 2021
World Bank budget support projects throughout the COVID-19 global health emergency contain significant policy conditionality. On average, each operation required the recipient government to implement 8 policy reforms to secure funding—a reasonable constraint in “normal” times but at odds with the tw...
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Hits and Misses: The World Bank and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity at the G7
Amanda Glassman
and
Greg Larson
June 11, 2021
We welcome Biden’s announcement last week that the US will purchase 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for distribution to lower income countries. And while no single country is responsible for vaccinating the world, there is one global institution that could be doing more.
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MDBs to the Rescue? The Evidence on COVID-19 Response
Nancy Lee
and
Rakan Aboneaaj
May 21, 2021
The world is now more than a year into the second global crisis of the century. This time, the IMF has stepped up. But what about the multilateral development banks? One of their central roles is to expand the fiscal space of middle- and low-income countries (MICs and LICs) for development spending,...
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Are Multilateral Development Banks Doing Enough to Close the COVID-19 Gender Gap?
Megan O'Donnell
April 07, 2021
The evidence to date suggests that the pandemic and resulting global recession have exacerbated pre-existing gender inequalities in economic standing and broader well-being in low- and middle-income countries. Now, the question is: are donors like the World Bank and other regional development banks ...