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Apr
12
2023
10:30—11:30 AM ET / 3:30-4:30 PM BST / In-person and Online
March 22, 2023
At the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings last fall, shareholders called on the World Bank to develop a plan to better respond to global challenges. (CGD also held dialogues at the 2021 and 2022 Annual Meetings on this very issue.) In December, the Bank delivered a roadmap, which outlines its approa...
Apr
4
2023
3:00—4:00 PM ET / 8:00-9:00 PM BST / In-person and online
March 22, 2023
The multilateral development banks are in the spotlight as countries struggle to address multiple crises, setbacks in poverty reduction, and global climate and health challenges. Shareholders and the broader international community are calling for a system-wide reform of MDBs to help them assist cou...
Mar
7
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
2:00—3:00 PM ET
February 28, 2023
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has made significant progress in delivering cost-effective vaccines and increasing immunization coverage and equity since its creation in 2000. Still, even before COVID-19, the realities of a rapidly changing global landscape were impeding efforts to sustain and improve v...
Dec
8
2022
3:00—4:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
November 28, 2022
US foreign aid agencies have long been at the forefront of evidence-based policymaking—tracking and measuring the impact of assistance programs on well-being and prosperity around the world. As part of the White House Year of Evidence for Action, the White House Office of Science and Technology Pol...
Nov
17
2022
2:00—3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 7:00—8:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 09, 2022
Last month, the Center for Global Development convened experts to lay out the major issues and challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean region and to discuss priorities for the next President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In the run-up to the IDB election on November 20, ca...
Oct
24
2022
9:30—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)/ 1:30 -3:00pm GMT/ 2:30 – 4:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 18, 2022
COVID-19 and related economic shocks have had important but heterogeneous impact across the Latin American and Caribbean region, which also faces elevated climate risks, increasing rates of poverty, declining life expectancy in some countries, and unprecedented rates of crime and violence. The Inter...
Oct
15
2022
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 3:00 - 4:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 4:00 - 5:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 11, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating climate and biodiversity crisis, and rising food insecurity have demonstrated the critical role the World Bank plays in protecting global public goods and responding to global challenges. In October 2021, CGD co-hosted an official side event on the role of the W...
Aug
23
2022
9:00—10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
August 17, 2022
The world is up against a potentially catastrophic food security crisis. War in Ukraine, the drawn-out COVID-19 pandemic, high inflation, and the ongoing impact of climate change are all exacerbating already unstable food access and causing food prices to grow.
The Food and Agriculture Organizat...