The IDA22 Replenishment

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POLICY PAPER

A Better Outcome for the Poorest: Finding the Right IDA-IBRD Balance
Karen Mathiasen et al.
July 21, 2026
IDA's current financing structure disadvantages the world's poorest countries because an overly flexible graduation process enables better-off countries to remain IDA-eligible for too long. IBRD’s creditworthiness assessments are too conservative, and it has the headroom and prudential space to brin...
Docks on Walvis Bay, Namibia
Blog Post

The World Bank's Model for Refugees Is Working, but It Could Be Even Better
Helen Dempster
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Thomas Ginn
April 09, 2026
The World Bank’s WHR has delivered real results for refugees in its first eight years. With IDA22 talks now underway, the WHR could enhance its impact even more with targeted reforms.
Families being relocated due to flooding and landslides in a refugee camp in Bangladesh
Blog Post

Is an IDA Health Window the Global Health Financing Solution?
Pete Baker
March 30, 2026
The global health architecture is facing intense scrutiny. There are now an A-Z of initiatives launched to lead the reform, from the Accra Reset to the Lusaka Agenda Secretariat and a WHO-led process. Critics have argued that the current system fails to focus on the poorest countries, fragments nati...
Is an IDA Health Window, Two steps to an IDA health window
CGD NOTE

Could IDA21’s New Results Framework Make IDA22 Harder to Champion?
Karen Mathiasen
July 09, 2025
It is reasonable to argue that the IDA results measurement framework needed reform when donors negotiated IDA21. By IDA20, the framework lacked cohesion and included more than 1,000 programmatic funding targets, only a few of which had corresponding indicators showing any connection between inputs (...
People on the street next to a bus loaded with parcels