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Blog Post
December 03, 2020
As development agencies transition from their immediate COVID-19 response towards a medium-term strategy, their leaders see a clear need to rethink some key aspects of their underlying business models. The Development Leaders Conference brought together heads of bilateral development agencies a...
Dec
2
2020
9:30—11:15 AM ET
November 19, 2020
This evaluation is the first by the IEO to focus squarely on how the IMF partners with its Bretton Woods sister institution, the World Bank. The report assesses the IMF’s collaboration with the World Bank as the Fund worked to raise the quality and influence of its work on issues such as equality, g...
Nov
19
2020
11:00—11:00 AM ET
November 12, 2020
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson joins CGD President Masood Ahmed to discuss the role of third country migrants in Europe. They will discuss how migrants can plug skills gaps in an aging Europe, what the new EU Migration Pact will do to expand legal migration instruments, and th...
Oct
29
2020
8:45—8:45 AM ET
November 06, 2020
Bilateral and multilateral development organizations providing a range of economic growth funding have set in motion their emergency response capacities to support countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This panel will focus beyond the immediate response on approaches to economic growth and trade t...
Blog Post
November 05, 2020
The only way to scale up the global financial response to meet the imminent needs of developing countries is by using all parts of the development finance system—and by making it work much more effectively as a system. This means the global multilateral institutions, of course, but it also includes ...
Oct
30
2020
11:15—12:15 PM EDT
October 23, 2020
Please join us for a conversation on global economic prospects and the COVID-19 response and recovery with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and CGD President Masood Ahmed. Less than two weeks after the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Ms. Georgie...
CGD in the News
October 14, 2020
"Finance ministers and officials from around the world will gather soon for a virtual annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Sometimes these gatherings lead to major international announcements. This time, two weeks before the highly consequential elections in the U.S., it...
Oct
20
2020
10:00—11:30 AM ET
October 07, 2020
While eight of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa, the region as a whole—much like the rest of the world—faces economic contraction it can ill afford. The continent’s post-COVID recovery will hinge, in part, on continued progress toward regional integration. The market size of m...
Oct
8
2020
8:30—10:30 AM EDT
October 05, 2020
Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the narrative on financing progress towards these goals in low-income countries (LICs) and select lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) has been dominated by a focus on the desirable rather than the feasible. The need for more r...