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Blog Post
October 11, 2023
Budget support offers direct financing to a country’s treasury to create more “fiscal space” for public programs. It has constituted some 14 percent of ODA on average, increasing to over 20 percent in times of crisis. No aid modality is more controversial. Critics argue that, without earmarking fund...
Blog Post
September 22, 2023
The IMF has now approved ten new loans to countries under its new Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), established in 2022 to provide financial support on concessional terms to countries facing long-term structural challenges arising from two key threats: climate change and pandemic preparedne...
Blog Post
May 04, 2023
Last week, the World Bank published the 2023 edition of its World Development Report (WDR), with a focus on “Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.” The report provides a sweeping overview of the issues facing migrants, refugees, and countries of origin, transit, and destination, encapsulating it all in...
Apr
27
2023
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 3:00-4:30 PM BST AND April 28, 10:00-11:30 AM ET/ 3:00-4:30 PM BST
April 11, 2023
The Center for Global Development, Refugees International, and the World Bank Group invite you to join us for a series of panels to launch the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, & Societies at the Birdsall Conference Center.
POLICY PAPERS
February 10, 2023
Bangladesh’s Primary Education Stipend Program provides stipends for 13 million primary schoolchildren to 10 million mothers. In 2017 the method of payment changed from cash to mobile money. This study considers the experience of the mothers with the shift to mobile money, and to the change in payme...