In timely and incisive analysis, our experts parse the latest development issues and events, providing practical solutions to new and emerging challenges.
These episodes are meant to capture the role of luck and privilege in my life, as an American during America’s near-hegemon years, and as a woman in a period of growing opportunities for women.
We need a new public-private actor to fill the gap in the development finance architechure. Nancy Lee and Dan Preson have a solution: The Stretch Fund.
Why isn’t the African Development Bank Group bigger? Clemence Landers and Nancy Lee have a proposal to reform the bank and increase its size and impact.
Our team has just launched (to our knowledge) the first ever survey of the gender policies and practices of 21 multilateral and bilateral DFIs in order to gain a better understanding of DFI gender strategies.
The grim picture for SDG-related infrastructure finance in low-income countries (LICs) is by now familiar. Nancy Lee examines salient evidence about the state of funding for infrastructure in LMICs.
In a world of stagnating public aid, limited fiscal space, and rising public debt in low-income countries, can they realistically expect to rely more on private finance from foreigners?
For all its faults, Facebook does not lack ambition. The company’s announcement last week that it, along with other members of the newly-formed Libra Association, intends to create a new global digital currency is big news for global finance and the future of money.
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) announcement gives us an opportunity to take stock and make a recommendation: open up access to We-Fi funding to a broader range of actors.