CGD Annual Meetings Events

Ahead of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Devex will sit down with experts from CGD to hear what they’ll be watching—and why. With aid budgets shrinking, debt pressures mounting, and a volatile global economy putting new pressure on developing countries, the stakes are high. The conversation will...

This event will present new CGD research mapping China's engagement across MBDs, the vertical funds and the UN system and will use it as a shared factual baseline for a panel discussion bringing together Chinese and non-Chinese perspectives. The aim is to explore what China's shifting willingness an...

This event will examine one of the central development finance challenges of the coming decade: how low-income countries (LICs) can simultaneously maintain macro and debt sustainability and invest in growth, at a time of larger and more frequent shocks, sharply reduced aid, higher borrowing costs, a...

Since 2023, development finance has become scarcer and dearer, official development assistance has suffered its steepest recorded fall, and China has turned from net financier to net extractor leaving the MDBs as the only institutions that still combine long-term, affordable finance with technical d...