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POLICY PAPERS
September 04, 2024
The World Bank’s concessional lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), provides significant assistance to small states for fostering long-term development and responding to climate change. Around half of all small states have access to IDA. While only 3 percent of IDA’s resource...
Blog Post
August 29, 2024
Nobody doubts China is a world power. But it is still underpowered at a number of global institutions. China could make progress in fixing that problem at the World Bank by increasing its contribution to IDA, the Bank’s soft lending arm for the world’s poorest countries, in the ongoing replenishment...
Blog Post
August 28, 2024
Over the past three years, I have been pushing an idea developed with Scott Morris of a climate-dedicated capital increase at the World Bank Group as likely the most plausible and efficient route to generate the levels of global financing required to speed climate mitigation efforts in developing co...
Blog Post
August 15, 2024
The World Bank’s recently released 2024-2030 Gender Strategy offers an unequivocal commitment to expanding jobs and advancing women’s participation in decision-making. Yet how well does the World Bank uphold these principles in its own organizational hiring, promotion, and managerial practices? Per...
Blog Post
August 14, 2024
At the World Bank Spring Meetings in April earlier this year, World Bank President, Ajay Banga along with the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Japan’s Minister of Finance, Shunichi Suzuki announced the launch of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Know...
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August 06, 2024
Each year around 169 million people cross borders in search of better economic opportunities, with the largest number migrating to Arab states and the largest share from Southeast Asia and South Asia. These migrants play a crucial role in the economic fabric of both their host and their home countri...
Blog Post
July 25, 2024
For the past 35 years, the World Bank has hosted the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, or ABCDE, showcasing internal and external research relevant to the Bank’s mission of a world free of poverty. This year, on July 9 and 10, CGD co-hosted the conference together with the World Bank.
