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POLICY PAPERS
Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: A Proposal for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility
Michele de Nevers et al.
June 14, 2018
The Tropical Forest Finance Facility is an attempt to generate significant new finance to fund pay-for-performance incentives for tropical forest conservation. The TFFF proposal includes two key innovations: 1) the way it will raise funds, by converting low-cost sovereign credit from mission-driven ...
CGD NOTES
Unequal Ventures: Results from a Baseline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia
Mayra Buvinic
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Firman Witoelar
April 30, 2018
A study of women and men business owners in East Java offers a unique opportunity to analyze characteristics of entrepreneurs and their businesses by gender for a country where such systematic data are scarce. The study is one of two randomized controlled trials launched in 2015 to assess the power ...
BRIEFS
Unequal Ventures: Baseline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia (Factsheet)
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
April 26, 2018
Women own a large and growing proportion of businesses in Indonesia, estimated at over half of all micro, small, and medium enterprises. However, women’s economic outcomes are not equal to those of men. 
Blog Post
Another Debt Crisis for Poor Countries?
Masood Ahmed
April 17, 2018
When the world’s finance ministers and central bank governors assemble in Washington later this month. they would do well to focus on another looming debt crisis that could hit some of the poorest countries in the world, many of whom are also struggling with problems of conflict and fragility ...
Blog Post
8 Ideas on Reforming the MDBs for the Eminent Persons Group
Mark Plant
April 09, 2018
The Eminent Persons Group (EPG), tasked with making the system of international financial institutions fit for purpose in the 21st century, recently gave the G20 Finance Ministers a preliminary report on its work.The report is a bit long on generalities and short on specifics and, as ...
Blog Post
On the G20 Eminent Persons Group “Update”: I’m Disappointed but Still Hopeful
Nancy Birdsall
April 09, 2018
I’m disappointed by the update. But I’m also hopeful. Here are three concrete issues that the group could raise regarding the MDBs.
Blog Post
The Paris Club: Will the United States Be Asked to Leave?
John Hurley
April 03, 2018
International actors have criticized decisions by the Trump administration to reject the Paris Climate Accord, abandon the Trans Pacific Partnership, and withdraw from a United Nations declaration intended to protect the rights of migrants. However, there is one international body, the Par...