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Blog Post
September 28, 2022
Development agencies are operating in an increasingly complex development landscape, defined by a “perfect long storm” of interconnected challenges. In this context, agencies will face tough choices related to how, where, and on what to spend limited development resources, as well as questions about...
Blog Post
August 04, 2022
At the July G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, a panel of experts (of which I was one) presented their report on the capital adequacy of the MDBs. Why care? the answer, quite simply, is that hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake. As with any bank, small changes in th...
Blog Post
August 02, 2022
It’s clear that development agencies will be faced with hard choices in the years to come. CGD’s 2022 Development Leaders Conference will bring together senior policymakers from official bilateral and multilateral development agencies and institutions to explore the way forward for development, dur...
Blog Post
July 25, 2022
Few would question that building productive infrastructure has to be at the center of development goals, energy access, food security, and combatting and adapting to climate change. We just saw G7 countries make a bold commitment to infrastructure, launching the Partnership for Global Infrastructure...
Blog Post
July 20, 2022
The Dutch government has published a new policy memorandum on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. According to Liesje Schreinemacher, the Minister in charge of this portfolio, a lot of what the Dutch government are doing in this space “works very well”. Though the evidence shows that some of ...
Blog Post
July 05, 2022
DFC has been the subject of a growing list of proposals from lawmakers that envision the agency tackling a wider range of challenges than initially envisioned. The agency may find ways to leverage this heightened interest. However, delivering on the bipartisan, foundational vision for DFC amid evolv...