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CGD in the News
March 07, 2014
Sometimes a crisis can usefully clarify things. So it is that events in Ukraine have given new focus to the Obama administration's long frustrated efforts to get Congress to approve the 2010 IMF quota reform.
The package has been stalled on the Hill for many months, suffering from the inabili...
ESSAYS
January 07, 2014
The World Bank should declare the IDA-17 replenishment its last and move to replace it with a broader bank resource review. Sticking with the status quo risks an underfunded institution and one that is increasingly isolated from its shareholders (yes, that would be a bad thing).
ESSAYS
July 12, 2013
The World Bank should be ambitious in working toward clean energy approaches in its development strategies, but it would be a mistake to definitively rule out coal in all circumstances. Such a decision would be bad for development and would also undermine the very goals that the bank’s coal critics ...