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Blog Post
June 05, 2024
No decision by aid donors this year is more important than how much they pledge to the IDA replenishment negotiations. IDA, the World Bank’s lending window for the poorest countries, is the single largest multilateral source of grants and concessional finance to poor countries for both development a...
Blog Post
May 31, 2024
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is up for renewal this year. AGOA is a cornerstone of US-Africa economic relations, and has enjoyed bipartisan support for nearly a quarter century. But it's showing its age. A lot has changed since Bill Clinton signed the bill back in 2000—not least, th...
Blog Post
May 23, 2024
In this blog we summarise our new analysis, in which we estimate with a high level of confidence that over $100bn of climate finance was indeed provided in 2022. In our central estimate, we project $106.8bn of climate finance was provided, meeting the goal in the OECD’s interpretation. We also consi...
Blog Post
May 16, 2024
Development agencies are spending unprecedented levels of development finance on climate-related objectives—but how much impact is that finance having? As negotiations towards a new climate finance target progress at the UN, we hope to add to the number of voices urging that the new goal encompasses...
Blog Post
May 10, 2024
While there was no great fanfare coming out of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, a closer look at the official statements reveals simmering tensions between major constituencies over the execution of the World Bank’s new “Livable Planet” agenda. These tensions were fueled by debates over the alloc...
Blog Post
April 30, 2024
The controversy around the IFC’s investment in Bridge Academies, a for-profit education provider in Africa and India, is not going away. Indeed, World Bank President Ajay Banga has committed to an external investigation of the entire fiasco. The Bridge investigation highlighted two significant accou...