April 30, 2020
Maximizing IDA's COVID-19 Crisis Response: Why a Debt Standstill Isn’t the Right Approach (For Now)
Let’s unpack our arguments for why a debt standstill would be the wrong move for IDA at this point in time.
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April 8, 2020
Calling All Official Bilateral Creditors to Poor Countries: Switch to IDA Concessional Terms as Part of COVID-19 Response
Overall public debt in IDA countries has risen rapidly since before the global financial crisis; and while debt to private creditors (mostly in the form of bonds or bank loans) has increased, the biggest increases have come from multilateral and official bilateral credits.
March 26, 2020
More Than $1 Trillion in MDB Firepower Exists as We Approach a COVID-19 “Break the Glass” Moment
In retrospect, the scale up in MDB financing during the 2008-2010 crisis, though significant, now looks conservative as we consider the potential scale of damage from the current COVID-19 pandemic. To put the question bluntly, if the human and economic devastation follows a worst-case scenario, just how much could the MDBs do to respond? We attempt to answer that question by assessing the legal, rather than prudential, constraints on MDB lending.
October 5, 2018
What CGD Experts are Watching at This Year’s World Bank/IMF Meetings in Bali
Why should countries invest in human capital? As emerging technologies impact economies and societies, how can we ensure that the most vulnerable are protected? Who will step up to finance the SDGs? Next week’s Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF will convene 13,000 global policymakers, private sector executives, academics, and civil society members in Bali, Indonesia as they work to address these questions and more.
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