International Financial Institutions

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Making the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights Work for COVID-19 Economic Relief
Mark Plant
May 06, 2020
Many prominent people have advocated that the IMF undertake an “SDR allocation” to assist countries in dealing with the global financial crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. If IMF shareholders show some leadership and bureaucratic flexibility, there are ways to allay the American gov...
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Mobilizing $400 Billion: Using the Visible Hand of Development Banks
Stephany Griffith-Jones et al.
April 10, 2020
Is the crisis a signal on how devastating the great problems confronting our future could be in a world that is not prepared for them, in particular to face challenges such as major inequalities, the climate emergency, and the loss of nature. The way in which our world produces and consumes, calls f...
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A Good Idea Executed Badly: Why the World Bank Should Not Renew the Pandemic Emergency Facility Insurance Window
Euan Ritchie
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Mark Plant
April 09, 2020
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A New Measure of Finance for International Development
Ian Mitchell et al.
April 09, 2020
In a new working paper, we aim to address this gap with a new measure of cross-border, concessional finance—Finance for International Development (FID). FID is designed to be a measure which is more consistent across all development actors—going beyond just OECD members.