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Blog Post
April 18, 2024
Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing global challenges will require a step change in private investment in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Only a small fraction of the trillions in private assets under management are currently directed to EMDEs.
Blog Post
November 28, 2023
The central role that private investors must play in financing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) investments in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) is now widely understood and acknowledged. The just-published two-volume report of the Independent Experts Group (here and here) to the ...
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
The “billions to trillions” vision advanced the notion that some significant part of official development assistance (ODA) should be used to catalyze additional finance from other public and private sources. Seven years later, the expectations that blended finance would expand sharply to help narrow...
Blog Post
February 07, 2022
For those who care about the mobilization of private finance for development, channeling a much larger volume and share of the trillions of dollars of global institutional investment, including from pension funds, into SDG-related investment in emerging markets might be described as the holy grail. ...
Blog Post
April 10, 2019
The global narrative on development finance centers on enabling all countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This cascades into a set of questions about how much financing is needed, how it should be mobilized, and how it will be used. While the SDGs motivate action and...
Blog Post
October 12, 2018
The formidable challenge of financing the Sustainable Development Goals has focused attention on the role of private capital in filling huge finance gaps. But for low-income countries (LICs), which receive only about 5 percent of total cross-border private capital flows to developing countries, ther...
Blog Post
October 05, 2018
Why should countries invest in human capital? As emerging technologies impact economies and societies, how can we ensure that the most vulnerable are protected? Who will step up to finance the SDGs? Next week’s Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF will convene 13,000 global policymake...
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September 25, 2018
On the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Bali, the Center for Global Development, the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are pleased to co-host an event, The Changing Role of Development Banks with...
CGD NOTES
June 21, 2018
Rising debt vulnerability in low-income countries (LICs) is emerging as a front-burner issue. Analysts at the IMF and elsewhere are tracking increases in public debt ratios that had fallen after the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. Forty percent...