International Financial Institutions

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Inside the Portfolio of the International Finance Corporation: Does IFC Do Enough in Low-Income Countries?
Charles Kenny et al.
January 17, 2018
IFC’s portfolio is not focused where it could make the most difference. Low income countries are where IFC has the scale to make a considerable difference to development outcomes. While an excessive portfolio shift might imperil IFC’s credit rating, the evidence suggests that there is co...
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AIIB Growing Pains and Opportunities: Three Takeaways
John Hurley
December 18, 2017
Last week the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) board of directors approved financing for three projects, including, for the first time, a project in China. Looking back at AIIB operations to date, these are my three takeaways.
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Complying with or Circumventing Conditionality: Two Cases of IMF and Sub-Saharan Africa Country Partnership
Antoinette Monsio Sayeh
November 27, 2017
The purpose of this presentation was to use two cases of IMF-supported program conditionality to animate a discussion of the bridge between first-best policy advice and on-the-ground development policy in country-specific political economy contexts. Having been involved as Minister of Finance in the...
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DFIs Embark on a Voyage of Rediscovery
Paddy Carter
November 21, 2017
Development finance institutions (DFIs) have long resisted the idea that they ought to support coordinated national development strategies in the countries that they invest in, but if conversations around private roundtables at the recent World Bank/IMF meetings are anything to go by, that’s w...