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Blog Post
December 14, 2022
As African and US Leaders meet in the Washington Summit this week, we decided to ask the leader of a key agency, with a long track record on the continent, how it is contributing to more effective and expanded US engagement. We asked Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Alice Albright a series...
Blog Post
December 09, 2022
With climate change already affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world, the need for a coordinated global response has never been more urgent. But to mobilize the huge sums required to finance the investments we need to ensure a climate-resilient future, the world mus...
Blog Post
December 09, 2022
In July, a G20 independent panel (of which we are members) recommended measures to modernise how the World Bank and other multilateral development banks calculate their capacity to lend in support of development and climate objectives. These recommendations are now under discussion by MDB shareholde...
Nov
30
2022
8:30—9:45 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) 1:30 - 2:45pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 18, 2022
On November 28, 2022, the OECD will release the Multilateral Development Finance 2022 report which sheds new light on this system’s funding and activities. It tracks changes in the donor landscape and resource availability in the midst of ongoing crises. The report evaluates the system’s response to...
CGD NOTES
November 07, 2022
The assignment is clear. During this year’s Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, shareholders instructed the World Bank to develop a work program for its own evolution (“to identify gaps in the Bank’s current institutional and operational framework…”) by the end of the year. Secretary Yellen l...
Blog Post
October 04, 2022
The World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings begin next week—against a backdrop of mounting economic crises and uncertainty. How can we reduce global debt? Rethink the MDB/IMF system to address pressing issues like pandemics, climate change, and food security? Support poor countries where they need the most a...
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...