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Blog Post
June 20, 2023
This is the third of our biennial updates on global education aid finance. In these posts we examine aid data from the OECD, analysing how much aid is going to education, where it is allocated, by who, and through what channels. The latest available data, which we use for this analysis, is from 2021...
Blog Post
May 17, 2023
Is Spain on track to become a bigger player within global development, and what is needed to ensure the reform has a lasting impact? In this blog we look at previous attempts at reform, assess what might be different this time, and conclude by providing suggestions on what policymakers could do to f...
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 10, 2023
On the face of it, the case for a general capital increase for the World Bank should be obvious and urgent in our age of the polycrisis. It is a very efficient way to support an increase in development and climate lending by an order of magnitude. A $20 billion paid-in capital increase would support...