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April 07, 2022
Heightened food and energy prices are exacerbating humanitarian crises around the world. Resources and attention are being diverted to Ukraine, rather than expanded. Here, we identify existing and new countries at risk, and look at the major donors’ resources to respond to those needs. Policymakers...
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March 18, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked significant rises in energy and food prices. Our analysis suggests the scale of price spike will push over 40 million into extreme poverty. In this blog, we look at the outlook for commodity prices as well as the significant implications for hunger and povert...
Blog Post
March 07, 2022
This International Women’s Day, we want to both celebrate the women who lead multilateral development organisations, and draw attention to those organisations where the “glass ceiling” remains intact. While women’s representation has improved over the last few decades, our analysis shows that 60 per...
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February 10, 2022
Climate and trade will be major issues at the sixth European Union (EU) – Africa Union (AU) summit on 17-18th February. One item on the agenda is the EU’s new proposal to apply a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on imports.The proposal is designed to lower carbon emissions globally, but at ...
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November 12, 2021
Obviously, an ethical vaccine distribution would start with a far more equitable sharing of vaccines between rich and less-rich nations. More pragmatically, the current huge imbalance in the global distribution of shots invites another outbreak of a new variant, against which the US and other high-i...
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November 12, 2021
The UK made the largest absolute contribution in the last replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), the bank’s main instrument for assisting the world’s poorest countries.
As the World Bank mobilizes for the IDA replenishment next month, we take an analytical ...