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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...
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...
Jul
14
2021
9:30—10:30 AM Washington DC time
July 07, 2021
The G20-requested High Level Independent Panel (HLIP), Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, is out with its recommendations: A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age.
The HLIP finds that the world remains very poorly equipped to prevent or contain future epidemics o...
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...
Oct
28
2020
1:00—2:00 PM EDT
October 20, 2020
Seventy-five years after its inception, the multilateral development system is under stress and challenged as never before. At the threshold of the “decade of action” (2020-2030), the multilateral development system has hardly ever been so solicited, with a highly ambitious global development agenda...
Aug
6
2020
11:30—12:30 PM ET
August 02, 2020
Despite early and aggressive lockdown measures, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the country’s population, health system, and economy. Peru has one of the highest number of cases in Latin America and the world, with no sign yet of decline, and the economic outlook for the country is grim with the ...