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Blog Post
May 12, 2023
In this blog post, we examine the rise of several of today’s big military spenders. These risers were not in the top ten spenders in 1990, but high rates of economic growth allowed them to allocate more dollars to the military, displacing countries higher in the list, including G7 nations.
Blog Post
April 27, 2023
The IMF should be applauded for implementing the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF). That said, it is highly improbable that extending RSF financing to an additional 44 countries will be feasible in the next one or two years as it would require a major change in the mindset of borrowing co...
Blog Post
April 25, 2023
MDBs and DFIs know how to originate assets in markets that other investors are unable to reach. Some have also learnt how to package and share these assets with institutional investors. It's time they focused these capacities on scaling up their mobilization of private capital in areas where there i...