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Blog Post
December 18, 2020
This blog proposes some critical steps—many of which are long overdue—that international financial institutions (IFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) must take if their money is to work more effectively to support African countries recover from the pandemic’s fallout.
Blog Post
December 15, 2020
What impact do development finance institutions (DFIs) like the IFC have on actual development? Today, George Yang and I release a paper that tries to take a sectoral approach to impact: does an IFC electricity investment lead to more power production per capita in a country, or financing provided t...
CGD NOTES
December 09, 2020
All three of the recent UN secretary-general reports on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (2018, 2019, and 2020) take note of the need to enhance collaboration between the UN—not only its development system but also its peace and security and humanitarian arms—with international financial instituti...
Dec
17
2020
2:00—3:00 PM EST
December 08, 2020
Excise taxes have traditionally been reliable sources of government revenue, but they are also used as a means of discouraging the consumption of products that harm health or the environment—tobacco, alcohol, fuel products and, more recently, sugar-sweetened beverages. How should policymakers d...
Dec
2
2020
9:30—11:15 AM ET
November 19, 2020
This evaluation is the first by the IEO to focus squarely on how the IMF partners with its Bretton Woods sister institution, the World Bank. The report assesses the IMF’s collaboration with the World Bank as the Fund worked to raise the quality and influence of its work on issues such as equality, g...
Oct
30
2020
11:15—12:15 PM EDT
October 23, 2020
Please join us for a conversation on global economic prospects and the COVID-19 response and recovery with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and CGD President Masood Ahmed. Less than two weeks after the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Ms. Georgie...