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Blog Post
October 05, 2023
At the urging of shareholders, the World Bank has pulled together a set of reform proposals to broaden the World Bank Group’s mission, stretch its balance sheet, and strengthen its impact. We looked at both the new Roadmap document and 2016's Forward Look document to assess whether the Evolution Roa...
Blog Post
October 05, 2023
Next week, finance ministers and other officials from around the world will descend on Marrakech for the World Bank and IMF annual meetings. Read on for a range of quick reactions from CGD's experts on what will happen next week, and what should happen—and how we get from one to the other.
Oct
13
2023
IN PERSON
12:00—1:30 PM ET / 5:00-6:30 PM GMT+1
September 29, 2023
CGD and the BMZ co-host this high-level panel discussion, featuring presidents from several MDBs and the World Bank, on how the MDBs can work together better to advance the provision and protection of global and regional public goods and improve development outcomes.
Oct
10
2023
9:00—10:30 AM ET / 2:00-3:30 PM GMT+1
October 02, 2023
What can be done to reinvigorate international cooperation and create a path to a more “pragmatic multilateralism” for the new era? The Center for Global Development, the International Finance Forum (IFF), and the Bretton Woods Committee co-hosted this important panel discussion held on the sideline...
Oct
31
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 2:00-3:30 PM GMT
September 25, 2023
In 1993, the World Bank created the Inspection Panel, the first accountability mechanism housed at a multilateral development bank. The Inspection Panel gives a voice to communities concerned about adverse effects of World Bank-funded projects and promotes accountability through its independent fact...
Oct
13
2023
IN PERSON
4:00—5:30 AM ET / 9:00-10:30 AM GMT+1
September 29, 2023
Join the Center for Global Development, ODI, and the the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) for this important conversation. This event marks the public launch of the reports of the G20 Independent Expert Group (IEG) on strengthening multilateral development ban...
Blog Post
September 29, 2023
Earlier this week, CGD’s board chair Lawrence Summers started a speech at the Confederation of Indian Industry with a clarion call for cooperation in the face of global threats like climate change and pandemics. This is a moment of discontinuity, and incrementalism will simply not deliver on the sca...
Blog Post
September 27, 2023
The UK is, hopefully, coming out of its nadir in international development. This is marked by planned rises in development spend, an ambitious new international development white paper, a supportive Minister, and a new parliament in 2024. But before considering any proposal, future governments with ...
Blog Post
September 21, 2023
The likelihood of capital increase for the World Bank’s non-concessional lending arm, the IBRD, appears to be climbing. At least an odd European government appears to be doing some preparatory work for it. But any negotiations around a capital increase may be complex. Large shareholders and borrowe...
Blog Post
September 14, 2023
COVID-19 is fading from public discussion, countries’ , and hopes for a safer and fairer future are being dashed by potentially watered-down political commitments. Yet people around the world continue to feel the impacts of COVID-19 every day, other infectious disease threats have not magically gone...