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Blog Post
February 26, 2018
CGD and the Centre for Finance and Development are teaming up to bring together international finance practitioners who are thinking about how to marry public and private international financing for development (so-called blended finance) and researchers who are rethinking government strat...
Blog Post
February 21, 2018
Policies put in place to counter financial crimes have unfortunately had a chilling effect on banks’ willingness to do business in markets perceived to be risky—due in part to the high price of compliance. Even as changes are being made to address this problem, financial institutions are...
Blog Post
February 13, 2018
In 1944, the United States created a blueprint for economic statecraft that relied heavily on a new class of multilateral institutions to pursue US interests in the world. The blueprint itself is now under serious duress in the “America First” strategy of international engagement of the ...
Blog Post
February 09, 2018
Since the 2015 financing for development agreement, donor governments and their development finance institutions have all been singing from the same hymn sheet: we must do more to mobilize private investment. Here I will argue that setting leverage targets in isolation might not get us what we want:...