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April 11, 2024
Ahead of the highly anticipated World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakesh, the Center for Global Development has unveiled a groundbreaking tool—the MDB Reform Tracker. This tracker explores how the six largest multilateral development banks are tracking against three major reform agenda:
WORKING PAPERS
December 14, 2023
This paper examines the effectiveness of Malawi's selective secondary schools in influencing student learning outcomes. Using data from Malawi’s National Examination Board, we employ value-added and regression discontinuity methods to gauge the impact of school types on high-stakes exam results. Fin...
POLICY PAPERS
October 12, 2023
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which offers investors and bankers political risk insurance and guarantees against non-payment by governments and state-owned enterprises, should feature heavily in the private sector reform agenda. We offer recommendations that would enable MIGA ...
Blog Post
October 12, 2023
As shareholders move forward with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, they should take a closer look at the Multilateral Insurance Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and its potential to help advance the private sector agenda which has so far failed to deliver. The current version of the Roadmap includes opti...
Blog Post
October 09, 2023
Ahead of the highly-anticipated World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakech, the Center for Global Development has unveiled a new tool to track reforms at the multilateral development banks. The Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Reform Tracker is an innovative platform that explores how the six la...
Blog Post
July 27, 2023
At the G20 Finance Ministerial in India on July 17th, World Bank President Ajay Banga announced a new portfolio guarantee program with impressive leverage—$5 billion of donor guarantees that could generate $30 billion in lending over 10 years. This announcement was part of a package of new financial...
CGD NOTES
July 17, 2023
Low-income countries are in a battle for their lives and livelihoods, but they lack the resources to respond effectively. As the largest single source of development finance for the world’s poorest countries, the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) must be at the center of the s...
Blog Post
July 14, 2023
It’s rare to read an education report that doesn’t mention the learning crisis. As data on low learning levels have emerged in recent years, global education aid has swung its focus sharply toward improving test scores among primary school children. Of course, learning to read is a good thing in its...