International Financial Institutions

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IFC Moves Towards Competitive Capped and Transparent Subsidy Use
Charles Kenny
April 08, 2020
As part of the negotiations between the IFC and the US government over a (now agreed) capital increase for the IFC, World Bank Group president David Malpass issued a letter to US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin promising changes in the way IFC does business.
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What Should We Ask from the IMF on Climate Change?
Mark Plant
April 03, 2020
While the world’s decision makers are now rightly focusing on the COVID-19 crisis and its potentially devastating economic aftermath, the climate change agenda has been moved from the center stage. As the world begins to rethink what the post COVID-19 economic order will look like, climate change wi...
CGD NOTE

Confronting the Macroeconomic Challenges of Climate Change: The Road Ahead for the IMF
Mark Plant
April 03, 2020
Adapted from a seminar with the IMF and climate experts that CGD co-sponsored with the European Climate Foundation, this note looks at the role that the IMF can take to help tackle climate change.
CGD NOTE

What to Do When You Can’t Prove DFI Additionality
Charles Kenny
and
Todd Moss
March 26, 2020
“Additionality” is central to claims of impact by development finance institutions (DFIs). At its core is the notion that DFIs are necessary to solve a market failure by providing capital, risk mitigation, or some other benefit to a market that is not delivering these services strictly through priva...