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Blog Post
April 05, 2024
As the Center for Global Development’s inaugural Evidence in Policy Fellow, I just finished an extended engagement to help increase data and evidence use in the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance. While at State, I spent much of my time leading and participating in the work of the inter...
Apr
15
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
3:00—4:30 PM ET / 8:00-9:30PM BST
March 26, 2024
A world of declining cooperation will leave us all poorer, less secure, and in a weaker position to address the challenges of the 21st century. Against this backdrop, a discussion co-hosted by CGD, BWC, and IFF will focus on practical ideas to reinvigorate cooperation in the international financial...
Blog Post
April 02, 2024
On July 9 and 10, the World Bank and the Center for Global Development will co-host the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE). On the first day, the conference will aim to bring coherence to development policy debates by bringing together the world’s top economic minds to focus on ...
Blog Post
March 28, 2024
For those of us who have long been pressing for more access to data from the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) Risk Database (here and here), the publication this week of a report on MDB loan recovery statistics is welcome validation of the market-building importance of these data and an important step...
Apr
18
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
11:00—12:00 PM ET / 4:00-5:00 PM BST
March 21, 2024
How can the MDBs effectively mobilize private finance at the necessary scale? A panel of key public and private leaders will grapple with this question, discussing feasible mobilization levels and what must be done to achieve them.
Apr
16
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
11:00—12:30 PM ET / 4:00-5:30 PM BST
March 20, 2024
In this event, key public and private stakeholders will discuss the importance of mobilizing more private capital in emerging markets and developing economies, how MDB approaches need to evolve, and the best ways to disclose, assess, and report on their performance.
Blog Post
March 26, 2024
There was a very disappointing development at the IMF Executive Board earlier this month—the postponement of a formal decision on whether special drawing rights (SDRs) could be recycled to the hybrid capital scheme proposed by two multilateral development banks (MDBs), the African Development Bank (...
Blog Post
March 25, 2024
A new institutional strategy for the years 2024–2030 was just approved by the Board of Governors at the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This comes one year after Ilan Goldfajn assumed the presidency of the organization with a commitment to establish clear priorities and ...
Apr
18
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
4:00—5:00 PM ET / 9:00-10:00 PM BST
March 22, 2024
Learn about the new Impact Disclosure Guidance that help corporates and governments use sound principles of impact measurement and monitoring to attract sustainable pools of capital and to report on development and climate impact. This panel will discuss these new voluntary guidelines and the potent...