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One Way Not to Leave Global Fund Money on the Table
December 04, 2013
President Obama earlier this week made a last minute appeal to donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Offering a US pledge of $1 for every $2 pledged by other donors for a total US pledge of up to $5 billion, the president said, “don’t leave our money on the t...
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Multilateralism-lite Might Miss the Big Picture
August 19, 2013
This is a joint post with Jenny Ottenhoff. My colleague Scott Morris pointed out in a recent blog that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria will likely surpass the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) as the single largest foreign assistance contribution the Unite...
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World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings – Nancy Birdsall and Todd Moss
April 09, 2013
In this week’s Wonkcast, recorded in the run-up to the institutions’ Spring Meetings, we consider these questions. My guests are Nancy Birdsall, founding president of CGD, and Todd Moss, vice president of programs and senior fellow.
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World Bank Study Explores Options on Global Public Goods
February 12, 2013
Many obstacles to development transcend national borders and therefore cannot be adequately addressed within a single country. These include issues such as drug resistance and other cross-border health risks, financial crises contagion, money laundering, water scarcity, fisheries collapse and, of co...
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In Tokyo, Kim Should Signal Why IDA Needs to Be Better, Not Bigger
October 11, 2012
This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz World Bank presidents have often defined their success in part via ever-larger replenishments for IDA, the Bank’s soft loan window. But at his first ever Bank-Fund annual meetings this weekend in Tokyo, Jim Yong Kim should explain to the gathered...