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Blog Post
April 25, 2023
MDBs and DFIs know how to originate assets in markets that other investors are unable to reach. Some have also learnt how to package and share these assets with institutional investors. It's time they focused these capacities on scaling up their mobilization of private capital in areas where there i...
Blog Post
April 24, 2023
That said, there are reasons to doubt that a declining working age population would have a long-term effect on prices. They are based on an argument that economists have long made when it comes to migration into economies where the domestic labor force was still expanding, termed the “lump of labor ...
Blog Post
April 21, 2023
In our recent paper forecasting global economic outcomes in 2050, we compared our estimates to the five shared socioeconomic pathways developed in 2018–scenarios used as part of climate change forecasting exercises by the IPCC. But these were far from the first global economic forecasts to reach 205...
Blog Post
April 21, 2023
At the Spring Meetings of the World Bank, a range of shareholders repeated their call for multilateral development banks (MDBs) to do more, particularly with regard to climate finance. At the same time, client countries are demanding these institutions preserve their core mandate to support developm...