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Blog Post
August 18, 2022
Last month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board approved the institution’s first Gender Mainstreaming Strategy. This is good news—and the process used by the IMF gender team to draft and seek feedback on the strategy bodes well for the implementation of this important work. But the proof of...
Sep
15
2022
9:00—10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) / 14:00—15:30 British Summer Time (GMT +1)
August 17, 2022
In 2021, G20 members created an independent panel to evaluate whether MDB shareholder capital is being used efficiently and to understand whether MDBs can lend more without threatening their long-term financial integrity. As well as discussing the recommendations of the report and framing the emergi...
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...
Jun
8
2022
12:00—1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
June 02, 2022
Developing countries have made tremendous progress in reducing poverty in the last fifty years, supported by international cooperation and more open societies and economies. However, in recent years, nationalist and populist movements as well as geopolitical fractures have hindered multilateralism, ...
Blog Post
May 17, 2022
This week we welcome the release of a new CGD book: Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times, by Mark Lowcock. A former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator—and a current Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at CDG—Mark gives us an inside ...
May
26
2022
10:00—11:00 AM ET
May 09, 2022
The World Bank Group’s President, David Malpass, and Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development, will hold a conversation about the array of global shocks, their impact on the most vulnerable communities—and the response they urgently demand.
May
4
2022
9:30—10:30 AM ET
April 28, 2022
Counselor Morton will discuss the role the Treasury Department is playing in advancing the Biden-Harris Administration’s climate agenda, what the Treasury Department has achieved thus far, and what work is ahead – as well as the challenges and opportunities of addressing climate change through U.S. ...