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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
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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...
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Development Finance Institutions Should Be Instruments of Public Policy, Not Private Gain
Charles Kenny
March 18, 2020
The World Bank Group has some very clear (and very good) guidelines about what makes for a successful public-private partnership where governments contract service provision like energy supply or education from private firms. Sadly, the bank has been ignoring that rule recently. And that is a sign o...