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July 20, 2021
Mikaela Gavas (CGD) and San Bilal (ECDPM) host Koen Doens, Director General of DG International Partnerships (DG INTPA) at the European Commission, to discuss his views on the outcome of the discussions on the European Financial Architecture for Development and what the European Commission is doing ...
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July 12, 2021
Mikaela Gavas (CGD) and San Bilal (ECDPM) host representatives from the “Enhanced Partnership,” an initiative launched by some of Europe’s key national development banks—Anne de Soucy (AFD), Johannes Kannicht (KfW), Marina Piccioni (CDP), Fernando Jimenez-Ontiveros (AECID)—and Laure Blanchard-B...
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June 08, 2021
Mikaela Gavas (CGD) and San Bilal (ECDPM) host Thomas Östros, Vice President of the European Investment Bank to discuss the role of the bank in the debate on the European Financial Architecture for Development. Thomas emphasises the importance for the EIB to raise its development profile building on...
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May 07, 2021
Mikaela Gavas (CGD) and San Bilal (ECDPM) sit down with Thomas Wieser, Chair of the 2019 Wise Persons Group report on the European Financial Architecture to discuss the process, politics and scenarios put forward to solve Europe’s perennial problem of fragmentation, duplication, and competition in i...
Blog Post
February 09, 2021
It’s been almost a year and a half since the High-Level Group of Wise Persons published its report, setting out options for consolidating and streamlining the European development finance architecture. That report generated a sparring match between the two European development banks—the European Ban...
Blog Post
October 21, 2019
Earlier this month, the long-awaited report on the future of the European financial architecture for development was released. Are the report’s proposals feasible? And crucially, do they offer a magic bullet to the intractable state of the European development finance system? I argue that ...
Blog Post
October 15, 2019
Efforts to make aid more effective in the last two decades have given prominence to "country ownership." With true country ownership, aid is supposed to follow the priorities of recipient countries, rather than those of the funders. Yet funders have their priorities too. So recipients and ...