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Sound Banks for Healthy Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean Working Group
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
September 14, 2020
Led by co-chairs Andrew Powell and Liliana Rojas-Suarez, this working group was the result of a collaboration between CGD and the Inter-American Development Bank. The group was formed by international finance experts and Latin-American and the Caribbean policymakers and prepared a report to be ...
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...
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...
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. 
The Future of IDA Working Group
Alan Gelb
et al.
September 15, 2014