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Money Talks: Rethinking Humanitarianism Episode 5

December 09, 2020
In this episode, we dive into how mistrust, monopolies, and perverse incentives are shaping humanitarian response
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Restructuring Sovereign Debt to Private Creditors in Poor Countries: What’s Broken?

August 05, 2020
Two out of five low-income countries were in the grips of, or moving rapidly toward, unsustainable debt levels before the global pandemic. But the economic, financial, and fiscal effects of the pandemic have brought the day of reckoning for many countries much closer. The global financial commu...
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If Development Finance Institutions Are Providing Aid, They Should Act Accordingly

June 10, 2020
How should member countries of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee classify their support to private sector investments in developing countries though development finance institutions? Either way, donors have decided that DFIs are in the aid business. And that means that DFIs shoul...
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Lending Practices of the Private Sector Window: How Effective are They?

March 10, 2020
The Private Sector Window (PSW) takes resources from the World Bank’s soft lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), and uses it to support private sector investments in poorer developing countries.This is a comparatively straightforward way for the IFC to move money, but it is h...