Working Groups

Task Force on Making Basel III Work for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
September 14, 2017
A new CGD Working Group is assessing the relevance, advantages and challenges for EMDEs’ growth and development and for the stability of their financial systems derived from the implementation of Basel III. Moreover, the Group is advancing specific recommendations regarding components of Basel...
Innovative Finance for Resettlement Working Group
Cindy Huang
et al.
May 09, 2017
The Innovative Finance for Resettlement Working Group aims to create more and better opportunities for displaced people to be safely resettled in third countries. The Working Group is developing proposals and setting out practical actions for donors and governments to use innovative financing and re...
Forced Displacement and Development Study Group
Cindy Huang
et al.
September 15, 2016
CGD and IRC are convening a joint study group to explore what a sound partnership framework between host governments and development and humanitarian actors might look like in protracted displacement scenarios. This effort is guided by a vision of displaced people having meaningful opportunities tha...
Shared Border, Shared Future: A Blueprint for Regulating US-Mexico Labor Mobility
Michael Clemens
September 08, 2016
The Shared Border, Shared Future working group explored ways in which the US and Mexican governments could achieve this bilateral cooperation objective with an agreement that addresses fee systems, visa portability, incentives for worker training, return, and integration, and more. The resulting rep...
High Level Panel on Future of Multilateral Development Banking: A New Policy Agenda
Nancy Birdsall
and
Scott Morris
September 29, 2015
The high level panel will seek to address these fundamental questions as part of an effort to provide a new policy blue print for multilateral development banks, both new and old. Starting with the basic elements of financing and governance first defined 70 years ago, the project will identify what ...
Next Generation Financing Models in Global Health
Amanda Glassman
et al.
August 19, 2015
The Next Generation Financing Models in Global Health Working Group, co-chaired with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, will explore how to put these new grant-making designs into practice, taking into account the constraints faced by global health donors. A final report is exp...
Energy Access Targets Working Group
Ben Leo
et al.
April 20, 2015
The Energy Access Targets Working Group will assess the current common definition of “modern energy access” and propose possible alternative targets. With at least a billion people worldwide living without electricity, and many millions more held back by blackouts and high costs, im...
The Unintended Consequences of Rich Countries’ Anti–Money Laundering Policies on Poor Countries
Alan Gelb
et al.
January 23, 2015
The Unintended Consequences of Rich Countries’ Anti-Money Laundering Policies on Poor Countries Working Group examined how rich countries might rebalance their policies to continue to protect against money laundering and terrorism financing without hindering the ability of people from poor countries...
Scaling Up Performance-Based Transfers for Reduced Tropical Deforestation
Frances Seymour
et al.
January 02, 2015
Reducing deforestation is an urgent, affordable, and feasible solution to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term.  And forests provide development benefits beyond their role in climate mitigation such as livelihoods for indigenous and local communities and maintaining hydrolo...
Task Force on Regulatory Standards for Financial Inclusion
Alan Gelb
et al.
December 18, 2014
Increased financial inclusion—greater access by the poor to the use of payments, deposits, credits, insurance and risk-management services—can improve the opportunities and welfare of people living in poverty. This CGD Task Force seeks to identify needed regulatory changes to increase financial incl...