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The IDA22 Replenishment
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Blog Post
July 21, 2026
Our hope is that stakeholders will coalesce around a series of reforms to address deficiencies in the current model that have led to a surfeit of IDA-eligible countries above the income threshold, constraining allocations for countries most in need, and support an increased allocation of World Bank ...
BRIEF
July 15, 2026
The global health architecture is facing a crisis of both financing and legitimacy. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have had their budgets cut by over 20 percent, donors are urgently calling for reform, and low- and middle-income nations are dem...
POLICY PAPER
July 21, 2026
IDA's current financing structure disadvantages the world's poorest countries because an overly flexible graduation process enables better-off countries to remain IDA-eligible for too long. IBRD’s creditworthiness assessments are too conservative, and it has the headroom and prudential space to brin...
Blog Post
March 30, 2026
The global health architecture is facing intense scrutiny. There are now an A-Z of initiatives launched to lead the reform, from the Accra Reset to the Lusaka Agenda Secretariat and a WHO-led process. Critics have argued that the current system fails to focus on the poorest countries, fragments nati...
