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Blog Post
September 18, 2024
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...
BRIEFS
September 18, 2024
EU member states have ambitious green transition targets and healthcare strategies in place, requiring the relevant sectors to expand. Yet these sectors are already suffering from large workforce shortages. Expanding skilled migration from third countries to the EU to meet these shortages risks stri...
WORKING PAPERS
September 17, 2024
Globally, women’s share in corporate leadership has been steadily rising, including in India. The female director mandate under The Companies Act (2013) in India marked a significant step toward gender-inclusive corporate leadership, requiring listed firms to have at least one woman on their board. ...
Blog Post
September 17, 2024
The Companies Act (2013) implemented in 2015 marked a turning point for the presence of women directors in corporate India. In just a year after the Act was implemented, the percentage of listed firms without women on boards dropped from 53 percent to under 10 percent, highlighting the policy's imme...
Blog Post
September 17, 2024
This spring, while watching children in rural Zambia excitedly cluster in groups on their classroom floor to chalk out different strategies to solve three-digit multiplication problems, I thought about the journey that had brought an innovative method of teaching (Teaching at the Right Level or TaRL...
PUBLICATION
September 17, 2024
Half of children in poor countries have lead poisoning which undermines their lifelong health and education. Prevention of lead exposure can be highly cost-effective and yet is grossly underfunded. We propose that the European Commission should pledge to end lead poisoning within the European Union,...
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September 11, 2024
Two years after the publication of the Independent Review of Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs’) Capital Adequacy Frameworks (CAF) report, we have the opportunity for a retrospective: Why was it so successful? What impact has it had so far and what challenges lie ahead? What lessons can we learn...
CGD NOTES
September 16, 2024
Africa, developing Asia excluding China, and Latin America have contributed less than 20 percent of cumulative global carbon emissions. But they are on the receiving end of negative climate impacts on growth, poverty reduction, and human development. They disproportionately confront heat, droughts, ...
Blog Post
September 12, 2024
The Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), China’s triennial conference with Africa, has been the primary mechanism for bilateral engagement across economics, health, peace and security, education, and culture since its inaugural session in 2000. While the size of the package announced at last w...
