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March 18, 2024
In September, the United Nations will hold the 'Summit of the Future'. This summit will debate, inter alia, the reform of global economic governance, lasting solutions on debt relief, lowering costs of sovereign borrowing, and an inclusive and equitable global tax architecture. Furthermore, the Braz...
Blog Post
February 15, 2023
Months of innovative work by AfDB staff have resulted in an attractive SDR recycling scheme that overcomes a major hurdle by successfully embodying the reserve asset characteristic. And it will allow leveraging SDRs to multiply their lending power 3-4 times. Now politicians have to step up and commi...
Blog Post
September 29, 2022
With a little more than two years left in the current administration’s term, now is the time to lay the foundation for a robust infrastructure so that US leadership translates into helping more refugees in the decades to come. If properly resourced and supported, the Resettlement Diplomacy Network c...
Blog Post
September 21, 2022
While any global leader needs to “walk and chew gum” at the same time, the effort to rapidly welcome Afghans required intense engagement from the highest levels of government to service providers on the frontlines. This major undertaking took place in the wake of an administration that targeted the ...
Blog Post
May 30, 2022
As international support for Ukraine ramps up, IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) are being brought into the mix. European Council president Charles Michel supported the Ukrainian Minister of Finance’s call to reallocate ten percent of unused SDRs to Ukraine. But it is unclear what this ten percent ...
Blog Post
February 10, 2022
The EU-AU summit is an important moment where the European Union could announce an ambitious plan to recycle its Special Drawing Rights which our analysis shows there is plenty of room to do. While some EU countries have been at the forefront of advocating for recycling, as a group the EU membe...
Blog Post
August 30, 2021
Germany has stepped up as an important player in global health in recent years, rising to become the third largest government donor to health in 2019. Notably, Germany has played a key role in WHO reform efforts; it is the largest donor to WHO for the 2020-21 budget period, and one of the largest WH...
REPORTS
August 19, 2020
Today, 1.4 million refugees urgently await resettlement. Unlike the rest of the world’s 26 million refugees, they have been designated by the United Nations (UN) as having vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed in their host countries. They are therefore waiting to be moved from the country host...