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Blog Post
June 30, 2023
The European Union (EU)’s arsenal of development finance instruments comprises grants, budget support, blends of grants and loans, guarantees, and trust funds. But little attention has been paid to its macro-financial assistance (MFA) tool. Since the 1990s, it has been deployed to help countries in ...
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June 20, 2023
The Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact set to take place this week is hot off the heels of the London Ukraine Recovery Conference. The Paris summit is being billed as a moment to rebuild trust between the West and African countries in the face of broken promises, double standards and bifur...
Blog Post
May 22, 2023
The recent Spring Meetings of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shone a light on the enormous and enlarging gulf between developing countries’ needs and what high-income countries are currently offering. Already constrained by the economic aftershocks of COVID-19, low- an...