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August 08, 2016
A multi-year project just came to fruition with the endorsement by the Board of the World Bank of its new set of safeguards—the social and environmental standards that govern Bank-funded projects in client countries. CGD's expert on multilateral development banks, senior fellow S...
CGD in the News
October 29, 2014
“There’s no doubt [Jim Yong Kim] personally and the institution are highly visible [in the Ebola crisis],” says Scott Morris, the US Treasury’s former liaison with the bank. “But I don’t see hard evidence that this is a shift towards the World Bank becoming the Wo...
CGD in the News
July 24, 2014
"No doubt the BRICS will take a more flexible stance, certainly in their energy strategies, when it comes to fossil fuels," said Scott Morris, an expert on international financial institutions at the Center for Global Development.
And although that's exactly what people concerned abou...
Multimedia
April 14, 2014
Clare Walsh, a senior official in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the chair of the Development Working Group of the G-20, recently visited CGD for a round-table discussion with CGD senior staff. Afterwards I hosted her and CGD senior associate, Scott Morris, a former ...