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Blog Post
October 24, 2024
The World Bank estimates that 7 in 10 children in low- and middle-income countries can’t read by age 10. The International Survey of Education Policymakers provides new data on some old theories around why learning remains in crisis. In order to really tackle the learning crisis, policymakers need t...
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October 23, 2024
A year ago, an Independent Expert Group, which we co-convened on behalf of the Indian Presidency of the G20, recommended a vision for better, bolder, bigger MDBs as a central tool to respond to the issues facing EMDEs. We believe we have an obligation to monitor the progress and inform public opinio...
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October 23, 2024
Much of the delay in COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to LMICs resulted from their signing purchase agreements later than high-income countries. These lags in part reflect the restrictive lending criteria the MDBs adopted for vaccine financing, which precluded countries from using MDB funds to purchase v...
Blog Post
October 22, 2024
Now is an opportune time for bilateral and multilateral donors to invest in early childhood development and childcare in fragile, conflict, and violence settings, as the International Development Association replenishment, IDA21, is underway. Unfortunately, the proposed IDA21 policy package reflects...
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October 22, 2024
The Center for Global Development has been working to inform an innovative approach to addressing challenges in settings affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), which brings together the early childhood development (ECD), childcare, and gender equality sectors to center FCV investments ...
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October 21, 2024
MDBs need more firepower to help low- and middle-income countries weather the climate transition. Their proposal to use SDR-funded hybrid capital to increase loans has merit but is mired in conservative interpretations of its use and the inability to use mutually a class of reserves globally. Alloca...