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Blog Post
October 13, 2023
In fundamental ways, this era differs from the final decades of the last century. Climate change has set many parts of the world on fire and sharply raised risks from underinvestment in mitigation, adaptation and resilience (both climate and health). War on a large scale has returned to Europe, re-e...
CGD NOTES
October 13, 2023
A world on fire requires the multilateral development banks to be at center stage in creating an effective response and bringing diverse actors to support a shared agenda of transformative development. MDBs have a distinctive comparative advantage in playing a catalytic role in fostering government ...
Blog Post
October 12, 2023
The vast majority of out-of-school children around the world live in rural areas. For children who live in rural areas and who are enrolled in school, they are less likely to finish primary school or to transition to secondary school. They score worse on tests. Less educational attainment and lower ...
Blog Post
October 11, 2023
Budget support offers direct financing to a country’s treasury to create more “fiscal space” for public programs. It has constituted some 14 percent of ODA on average, increasing to over 20 percent in times of crisis. No aid modality is more controversial. Critics argue that, without earmarking fund...
Blog Post
October 10, 2023
Even when students are in school, they often miss opportunities to learn due to a lack of teacher time on task (i.e., the time teachers spend actively engaged in teaching). We have clear evidence that boosting the quality of pedagogy can boost student learning outcomes, but we also have evidence tha...
Oct
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2023
9:00—10:15 AM ET / 2:00-3:15 PM BST
September 29, 2023
Evidence shows that the development of early mathematics skills are a predictor of later school success and financial well being. Despite this evidence, numeracy outcomes are far lower than they should be in many low- and middle-income contexts. The Numeracy at Scale study is the second phase of the...
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
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...