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Blog Post
May 17, 2024
At a time when global challenges appear daunting and geopolitical rivalries are rising, it is useful to remind ourselves that the past 75 years have seen more improvement in the human condition than ever before. Fifty years ago, half the world lived in extreme poverty, today it is less than one in 1...
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.
Apr
17
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
10:30—11:30 AM ET / 3:30-4:30 PM BST
March 19, 2024
During the 2024 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF, CGD will host EIB President Nadia Calviño for an event, during which she will discuss her approach to the challenges she faces and the new EIB Group strategy recently endorsed by 27 Europe’s finance ministers.
Blog Post
November 29, 2023
Sovereign debt issues for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) were a predictable subject of many conversations at the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakech. Here are our main takeaways on the state of play and how to make progress to address urgent needs amidst slow-moving pr...
Oct
13
2023
IN PERSON
12:00—1:30 PM ET / 5:00-6:30 PM GMT+1
September 29, 2023
CGD and the BMZ co-host this high-level panel discussion, featuring presidents from several MDBs and the World Bank, on how the MDBs can work together better to advance the provision and protection of global and regional public goods and improve development outcomes.
Apr
13
2023
11:00—12:00 PM ET / 4:00-5:00 PM BST / In-person and online
March 22, 2023
In this conversation in the margins of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, CGD President Masood Ahmed, Mikaela Gavas, CGD Europe Managing Director and Senior Policy Fellow, EIB President Werner Hoyer, and EIB Global’s head of lending for Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and Latin America, Maria ...
Multimedia
October 14, 2022
In this video, senior policymakers from around the world, who gathered for CGD’s Development Leaders Conference in September in Paris, discuss the critical need for development agencies and development finance institutions to work together to tackle these increasingly complex - and global - issues. ...
Blog Post
July 15, 2022
When G20 Finance Ministers meet this weekend in Bali, their meeting will likely be no more harmonious than their Foreign Minister counterparts managed ten days ago. But the world – and developing countries in particular – deserve better. The reality for the world’s poorest countries is getting bleak...