Billions to Trillions

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Time to Pay More Attention to Tax Expenditures?
Sanjeev Gupta
August 01, 2018
It is time that donors and technical assistance providers turn their attention to tax concessions provided by developing countries struggling to raise more taxes from domestic sources. The granting of tax concessions is not only mostly opaque and prone to corruption, but these concessions are furthe...
BRIEF

More Mobilizing, Less Lending: A Pragmatic Proposal for MDBs
Nancy Lee
April 03, 2018
MDB private sector operations or windows (PSWs) are essential actors in mobilizing private finance for development, but their mobilization track record to date falls far short of a meaningful contribution to annual SDG financing gaps in the trillions
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Trillions in Private Finance for the SDGs? In Davos, Leaders Should Revisit the Role of Multilateral Development Banks
Nancy Lee
January 22, 2018
As global decision makers meet in Davos, one of the top agenda items should be how to mobilize more private finance to fund the Sustainable Development Goals—particularly how to strengthen the role of one of the most important tools of the international community: the multilateral development ...
ESSAY

Billions to Trillions? Issues on the Role of Development Banks in Mobilizing Private Finance
Nancy Lee
November 17, 2017
It is time to take a fresh look at the PSWs and to ask some basic questions about their role and instruments. The aim of this essay is to raise issues that need to be addressed as we think about how PSWs should evolve and adapt to meet the formidable challenges ahead. These questions and the answers...