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My Wishes for Addis: Something Old, Something New
Nancy Birdsall
June 30, 2015
Here are five wishes for the Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa. Four are not new: I set them out in January here. One of them is new.  (Can you guess which one?)
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Sir Suma Chakrabarti on the EBRD, Ukraine, and the SDGs
Rajesh Mirchandani
June 30, 2015
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Picking up the Dollars on the Pavement – What I'd Like to See from Addis
Owen Barder
June 30, 2015
Nancy Birdsall has given us her five wishes for the Financing for Development conference in July — and I agree with them all. I would say this even if she were not my boss. But all of her wishes are about how we can generate more and better financing in the cause of development. &nbs...
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¿Podrías soportar un 2008 más? Una prueba de resiliencia para economías emergentes
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
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Rajesh Mirchandani
June 24, 2015
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The Little Agency That Could
Rajesh Mirchandani
June 23, 2015
Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, sits down with me to discuss the agency's success in leading the transition from aid to private finance (despite its modest size), as well as what it has in store for the remainder of the Obama presidency.
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Podcast | The Little Agency That Could
June 23, 2015
Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, sits down with me to discuss the agency's success in leading the transition from aid to private finance (despite its modest size), as well as what it has in store for the remainder of the Obama presidency.
POLICY PAPERS
Finding Cash for Infrastructure in Addis: Blending, Lending and Guarantees in Finance for Development
Charles Kenny
June 19, 2015
The total scale of incremental investment requirements in infrastructure in developing countries has been estimated at around USD 1 trillion a year, with a range of related studies suggesting numbers between $815 billion to $1.3 trillion. While all such numbers are open to considerable debate, and w...