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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.
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...
Blog Post
October 22, 2020
Drawing on work done jointly with CGD, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) just released a paper by Marc Jacquand that makes the case for better IFI-UN coordination in fragile states to better identify macroeconomic and political vulnerabilities, anticipate the tipping po...