International Financial Institutions

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A Climate-Dedicated Capital Increase at the World Bank and IFC
Charles Kenny
and
Scott Morris
March 15, 2021
With a new US administration rejoining the Paris Agreement and the upcoming Glasgow climate conference set to endorse a new set of national commitments to greenhouse gas emissions, there is renewed momentum in the struggle to limit climate change and its global impact. But global finance to support ...
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The Case for an IDB Capital Increase Is Everywhere Except in the IDB’s Lending Numbers
Scott Morris
March 01, 2021
Today the IDB is again making the case for a capital increase to its shareholders. Yet, despite an unfolding crisis that threatens development progress in Latin America to a degree that eclipses the Global Financial Crisis,  talk of a financing cliff at the bank is absent from its appeal for mo...
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An Agenda for Makhtar Diop at the IFC
Charles Kenny et al.
February 18, 2021
Makhtar Diop, former minister of finance in Senegal and current vice president for infrastructure at the World Bank, has been tapped to be the next head of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private sector investment arm. This is welcome news: Diop’s experience and talents...
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Measuring the Development Impact of the IFC and Development Finance
Charles Kenny
and
George Yang
December 16, 2020
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) tend to look at their development impact using project-level indicators of outputs and employment impacts.