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Blog Post
August 18, 2022
Last month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board approved the institution’s first Gender Mainstreaming Strategy. This is good news—and the process used by the IMF gender team to draft and seek feedback on the strategy bodes well for the implementation of this important work. But the proof of...
Blog Post
August 03, 2022
Ukraine’s dire financing situation is front and center in the debate over how the world will weather the war being waged by Russia. The IMF will play an important role in extending credit to Ukraine directly, but the institution is also being used a conduit for other countries’ assistance. In this b...
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 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
If the objective is to grow women’s businesses by providing capital infusions, programs can nudge women to invest more of their capital in their own businesses by making accessible capital in-kind (and less likely to be easily divided) or providing access to individual accounts through mobile bankin...
CGD NOTES
June 28, 2022
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global recession, researchers have documented the economic impacts of the crisis, including in the form of individuals’ lost employment and income and increased poverty and food insecurity within households. To respond to these impacts, about 20...
Blog Post
June 16, 2022
As the world fights to extract itself from the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of women in the global economy has been correctly cited as an important source for future economic growth. Women took to the front lines over the past two years – in their roles as doctors, nurses and scientists, home provide...
Blog Post
June 14, 2022
CGD's Megan O'Donnell speaks with coauthors Patience Marime-Ball (Women of the World Endowment) and Ruth Shaber (Tara Health Foundation) about the data backing the economic benefits of gender inclusivity, the work that went into creating their new book, and their recommendations for unlocking higher...
Blog Post
May 30, 2022
As international support for Ukraine ramps up, IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) are being brought into the mix. European Council president Charles Michel supported the Ukrainian Minister of Finance’s call to reallocate ten percent of unused SDRs to Ukraine. But it is unclear what this ten percent ...