The IDA21 Replenishment

The International Development Association (IDA), which makes up one half of the World Bank, is the single largest source of grants and concessional finance for the world’s poorest countries. IDA's 21st funding cycle will be in full swing throughout 2024, culminating in a December pledging session.

CGD's experts are examining the big questions around the replenishment: how to get to a record size, but also setting the right policy commitments to meet critical challenges like gender equity, reducing fragility, private sector job creation, and supporting refugees.

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A Modest Proposal to China’s Minister of Finance Regarding the Upcoming IDA Replenishment

August 29, 2024
Nobody doubts China is a world power. But it is still underpowered at a number of global institutions. China could make progress in fixing that problem at the World Bank by increasing its contribution to IDA, the Bank’s soft lending arm for the world’s poorest countries, in the ongoing replenishment...
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How Can the World Bank Better Support Climate-Vulnerable Lower-Income Small States? An IDA Policy Agenda for Small States

September 04, 2024
The World Bank’s concessional lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), provides significant assistance to small states for fostering long-term development and responding to climate change. Around half of all small states have access to IDA. While only 3 percent of IDA’s resource...
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Governance of a Climate Dedicated Capital Increase at the World Bank

August 28, 2024
Over the past three years, I have been pushing an idea developed with Scott Morris of a climate-dedicated capital increase at the World Bank Group as likely the most plausible and efficient route to generate the levels of global financing required to speed climate mitigation efforts in developing co...
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How the G7 Can Meet IDA’s Replenishment Goal Without Any Additional Spend, and Germany Can Lead the Way

July 18, 2024
Fiscal pressures in G7 countries are real—Germany’s cabinet has just agreed to implement further spending cuts in response to theirs—but so too is the geopolitical case for investing more in climate and development. The replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) fu...