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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.
Blog Post

Beyond the Numbers: Why the World Needs a More Ambitious MDB Response to COVID-19
Masood Ahmed
November 16, 2020
Masood Ahmed cuts through the discussion about how much financial support the World Bank is providing to LMICs, and urges that the MDBs, and their sharedholders, should be more ambitious in their support of LMICs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blog Post

Board of Men at the World Bank
Charles Kenny
and
Vijaya Ramachandran
November 09, 2020
How gender balanced is the World Bank's board?
Blog Post

On Fragility, Tipping Points, and International Coordination
Sarah Rose
and
Mark Plant
October 22, 2020
Drawing on work done jointly with CGD, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) just released a paper by Marc Jacquand that makes the case for better IFI-UN coordination in fragile states to better identify macroeconomic and political vulnerabilities, anticipate the tipping po...