Global Public Goods

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CGD Podcast: Decarbonization, MDB Reform, and the Private Sector with Ahmed Saeed
Karen Mathiasen
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Clemence Landers
November 30, 2023
Ahmed Saeed of Allied Climate Partners and formerly the Asian Development Bank joins CGD’s Karen Mathiasen and Clemence Landers for a conversation on his organization's new approach to blended finance, how to bridge the private and public sectors more effectively, and how to balance climate mitigati...
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Official Development Assistance, Global Public Goods, and Implications for Climate Finance
Charles Kenny
October 27, 2020
Is research into a Covid-19 vaccine a suitable use of Official Development Assistance (ODA)? This note attempts to tease apart a discussion of “is this ODA” from “is this a global public good?” and then separate out again “is this ODA and/or a global public good?” from “is this an efficient way...
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On Aid and Climate, Don’t Make the Poor Pay Twice
Charles Kenny
October 27, 2020
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On Global Public Goods: It’s Not Big Money but It’s a Big Breakthrough
Nancy Birdsall
May 02, 2018
There is much to cheer about in last week’s announcement by the World Bank’s shareholders to increase its paid-in capital by $13 billion. It is a healthy signal that multilateralism is alive and well, at least in the development space. And on a practical level it is sufficient to en...