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Blog Post
February 06, 2024
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group has just issued a “Focused Assessment” of the IDA Private Sector Window, looking at the PSW’s first five years of operation. The PSW, launched in 2018, uses $5.6 billion of World Bank IDA financing to subsidize IFC and MIGA investments in the private sec...
Blog Post
February 01, 2024
As the urgency and scale of development and climate challenges become more obvious and alarming, we have seen a surge in interest in how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can help low- and middle-income countries meet these challenges. Much of that focus has been on the volume of their finance, ...
CGD NOTES
January 30, 2024
As policymakers in protracted refugee situations shift from short-term humanitarian responses to longer-term development support, it is critical to identify effective approaches for allocating scarce resources. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on livelihood programs for refugees annually, y...
Blog Post
January 23, 2024
Over the coming decades, the world must decarbonise at an unprecedented speed. Yet deploying ‘green’ technologies cannot be done without a sufficiently sized and adequately skilled workforce. New research from the Center for Global Development (CGD) suggests that workforce gaps pose a significant bo...
POLICY PAPERS
January 23, 2024
If green transition targets are to be met, migration is likely to be needed as a complement to domestic training and reskilling. Given that the shortage of green-skilled workers is global, however, migration must be accompanied by support for training and retaining workers at home.
Blog Post
January 10, 2024
This blog outlines key considerations regarding how the AEF raises and spends funds, underscoring the significance of a robust design and effective implementation at a time when the AEF’s proposed governance and operational mechanisms are being deliberated on and presented to the AU policy organs fo...
Blog Post
December 11, 2023
The World Bank offered up several new climate commitments at COP, including that 45 percent of its annual financing will be devoted to climate-related projects. The question is: what does “climate-related” mean? Will these funds really influence climate outcomes, or will they be the financial equiva...
Blog Post
December 11, 2023
Refugees are both highly exposed and highly vulnerable to climate shocks. Despite this, over 15 million refugees and other persons in need of international protection are in countries whose National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) do not account for their adaptation needs. This is a crucial omission that mu...
Blog Post
December 06, 2023
As COP28 draws on, major multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made flashy announcements about their desire to expand debt-for-nature swaps. About a year ago, we warned against overestimating the efficacy of such swaps in addressing both climate change...