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The IFC Should Get a Capital Increase, but More Reform Should Be Part of the Package

March 05, 2020
I’m not convinced that the IFC will manage to deliver on all of the promises it is making in order to receive the funds. And I think that congressional concerns with the IFC’s use of aid in an attempt to meet lending targets are right. So, reform should come alongside resources. 
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Why Congress Should Authorize the IFC Capital Increase

March 04, 2020
In May 2018, the shareholders of the International Finance Corporation (IFC)—the private sector arm of the World Bank—agreed to increase its paid-in capital by $5.5 billion as part of the $13 billion capital increase for the World Bank Group (WBG). The US administration agreed to the increase b...
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What David Malpass Gets Wrong about the Asian Development Bank

February 14, 2020
This week, World Bank president David Malpass took the unusual step of calling out the bank’s peer institutions, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and African Development Bank, for lending irresponsibly into unsustainable debt environments.
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Three Key Ways to Modernize Humanitarian Finance

February 10, 2020
Is the humanitarian system broke or broken?