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Citizens and States
March 31, 2020
The clock is ticking on the SDGs. Integrating digital tools—like mobile phones, states IDs, and financial services—can help us meet them. 
Blog Post

Where Policy and Research Meet: Takeaways from Workshops on CGD's New Policy Decision Tree for Financial Inclusion
Liliana Rojas-Suarez et al.
November 18, 2019
On October 10, CGD, in collaboration with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), held a workshop in Mexico City to discuss CGD’s innovative tool that serves to diagnose the crucial impediments to digital financial inclusion in specific country contexts. There, we shared a draft of CGD’s&nb...
WORKING PAPER

Are the Pacific Islands Insurable? Challenges and Opportunities for Disaster Risk Finance
Vijaya Ramachandran
and
Junaid Sadiq Masood
September 20, 2019
There are several efforts underway in the Pacific Islands to insure public and private assets against natural disasters such as cyclones and earthquakes. These efforts are designed to mitigate the annual costs of such disasters which range from a few percent to over 50 percent of GDP.  However,...
Blog Post

Foreign Private Investment in Low-Income Countries: More Important Than You Think
Nancy Lee
and
Asad Sami
July 24, 2019
In a world of stagnating public aid, limited fiscal space, and rising public debt in low-income countries, can they realistically expect to rely more on private finance from foreigners?