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September 12, 2023
The first of CGD's conversations with candidates for the presidency of the European Investment Bank was with Margrethe Vestager. Margrethe is the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition. She has had a long and illustrious political career, having become a...
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September 05, 2023
EU finance ministers will soon appoint a new president of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Following two six-year terms, the incumbent, Werner Hoyer, will step down, and a new captain will take the helm of the world’s largest multilateral financial institution. The new president comes at a critic...
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July 05, 2023
When the EU adopted its seven-year budget in 2020, few predicted the eruption of a full-scale war two years later at its borders. By the end of 2023, the EU will have provided military, economic and humanitarian support to Ukraine to the tune of EUR35.2 billion since Russia’s invasion. But with spir...
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June 30, 2023
The European Union (EU)’s arsenal of development finance instruments comprises grants, budget support, blends of grants and loans, guarantees, and trust funds. But little attention has been paid to its macro-financial assistance (MFA) tool. Since the 1990s, it has been deployed to help countries in ...
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June 20, 2023
The Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact set to take place this week is hot off the heels of the London Ukraine Recovery Conference. The Paris summit is being billed as a moment to rebuild trust between the West and African countries in the face of broken promises, double standards and bifur...
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June 19, 2023
This week, the world’s leaders descend on Paris to “build a new consensus on a more inclusive international finance system.” In this blog, we look at why taxes and levies offer major advantages over other economic tools to tackle climate change and examine different taxes and levies that could reduc...
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June 13, 2023
This Thursday, the Center for Global Development is hosting a half-day event—Get the Lead Out—to shine a much-needed spotlight on the far-reaching social and economic consequences of lead poisoning. Lead is an insidious toxin. In most cases, it has no overt, easily detectable symptoms when ingested—...