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This year, donors will replenish IDA and much of the focus is rightly on IDA’s development effectiveness. But, IDA’s macro role in the broader development finance architecture is profoundly consequential. Here are some ideas on what IDA can do to help carry forward the Nairobi-Washington Vision and ...

If Banga’s $100 billion total replenishment target is met by making IDA more expensive, the champagne should remain corked. Far better for the World Bank’s president to declare that donors have failed the institution and the world’s poorest countries than to try to engineer a trainwreck to look like...

Over the last twenty plus years, global health has benefited from the emergence of new financing models and “global health initiatives” (GHIs), including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. These innovative GHIs were created to provide rapid reduc...

The recently advanced bipartisan DFC Modernization and Reauthorization Act of 2024 does more than reauthorize the Development Finance Corporation—it also includes several provisions that would shape the US development finance agency’s direction of travel for the next seven years. Standout elements i...