Development Finance

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Financing Options for Low-Income Countries
Masood Ahmed
April 10, 2019
The global narrative on development finance centers on enabling all countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This cascades into a set of questions about how much financing is needed, how it should be mobilized, and how it will be used. While the SDGs motivate action and...
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Congress Spotlights the World Bank’s Private Sector Subsidies
Charles Kenny
April 10, 2019
Yesterday, the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing with US Secretary of the Treasury Stephen Mnuchin on the international financial system. Chairwoman Maxine Waters opened the session with a strong statement on the World Bank’s $2.5 billion IDA Private Sector Window ...
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Still Lending (Mostly) After All These Years
Nancy Lee
and
Asad Sami
February 26, 2019
Concern about relatively low development finance institution (DFI) mobilization ratios (dollars of private finance mobilized per dollar of DFI’s own commitments) is drawing attention to the product mix in DFI operations. 
POLICY PAPER

The Two Hundred Billion Dollar Question: How to Get the Biggest Impact from the 2019 Replenishments
Andrew Rogerson
and
Owen Barder
February 05, 2019
In 2019/2020 donor governments are anticipated to pledge up to $170 billion to various multilateral organisations as part of their replenishment cycles. This unusual bunching of replenishments of some of the largest organisations in 2019 provides an opportunity to think more coherently about multila...