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CGD NOTES
April 11, 2024
The pace of MDB reforms remains inadequate to have a material impact on sustainable development. Our assessment is buttressed by the results of a survey of international experts, who remain skeptical that there is enough momentum to implement sufficiently deep reforms across key areas.
We have id...
April 11, 2024
Ahead of the highly anticipated World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakesh, the Center for Global Development has unveiled a groundbreaking tool—the MDB Reform Tracker. This tracker explores how the six largest multilateral development banks are tracking against three major reform agenda:
Blog Post
April 09, 2024
It's spring in DC, which means it's time once again for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Finance ministers, central bank governors, and other top officials from around the world gather to discuss the state of the world economy and the international financial architecture, and CGD's researchers ar...
Apr
16
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
2:00—3:00 PM ET / 7:00-8:00 PM BST
April 04, 2024
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African and first woman to head the World Trade Organization, building on a long career where she guided Nigeria through debt distress and introduced sweeping economic reforms across two terms as finance minister. She was also a leader at the World Bank across a 25-...
Apr
15
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
3:00—4:30 PM ET / 8:00-9:30PM BST
March 26, 2024
A world of declining cooperation will leave us all poorer, less secure, and in a weaker position to address the challenges of the 21st century. Against this backdrop, a discussion co-hosted by CGD, BWC, and IFF will focus on practical ideas to reinvigorate cooperation in the international financial...
Apr
18
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:00—10:00 AM ET / 2:00-3:00 PM BST
March 27, 2024
In the margins of the 2024 World Bank IMF Spring Meetings, the Center for Global Development is set to convene leading development policymakers to discuss the implications of the changing landscape for Official Development Assistance (ODA) and explore how—and on what—to use it most effectively.
Blog Post
April 02, 2024
On July 9 and 10, the World Bank and the Center for Global Development will co-host the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE). On the first day, the conference will aim to bring coherence to development policy debates by bringing together the world’s top economic minds to focus on ...
Blog Post
March 27, 2024
After an almost two-year lull, sub-Saharan African issuers are clawing their way back into international markets. In close succession, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Kenya issued $4.85 billion worth of Eurobonds in the first quarter of 2024. The bond offerings were as much as six times oversubscribed, in...