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Blog Post
March 21, 2024
As many developing countries approach universal enrollment in primary school, the World Bank has emerged as one of the most prominent advocates for a pivot “from schooling access to learning outcomes” in recent decades. The most recent education strategy of the Bank, adopted in 2011, emphasizes the ...
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March 21, 2024
Since 2011, the World Bank’s education strategy has emphasized the need to shift focus from schooling to learning, and towards primary education with special attention to foundational skills. But this shift is not always easy to see in the actual lending data. Coding new details on 25 years of World...
Blog Post
April 27, 2023
The IMF should be applauded for implementing the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF). That said, it is highly improbable that extending RSF financing to an additional 44 countries will be feasible in the next one or two years as it would require a major change in the mindset of borrowing co...
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2023
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March 17, 2023
The 2021 Inclusive Framework agreement is the greatest international tax reform in 100 years, but much of it remains to be implemented. While representing a major advance, further reforms are needed both to finalize incomplete aspects of the agreement and to raise more domestic revenues in developin...
Oct
6
2022
9:00—10:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) /1:00 - 2:30pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 2:00 - 3:30pm British Summer Time (BST) / 3:00 - 4:30pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
September 22, 2022
What is the impact of IMF-provided capacity development (CD) on IMF member countries developing their institutional and human capacity to design and implement sound macroeconomic and financial policies? Does the Fund identify the right priorities and is CD sufficiently integrated with the Fund’s sur...