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Blog Post
May 10, 2024
While there was no great fanfare coming out of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, a closer look at the official statements reveals simmering tensions between major constituencies over the execution of the World Bank’s new “Livable Planet” agenda. These tensions were fueled by debates over the alloc...
POLICY PAPERS
May 09, 2024
Economic migrants and refugees can bring both benefits and costs to their hosting countries. If well-integrated, they can support themselves, their families, and their hosting countries as producers and consumers. Both economic migration and forced displacement are therefore integrally linked with d...
Blog Post
April 30, 2024
The controversy around the IFC’s investment in Bridge Academies, a for-profit education provider in Africa and India, is not going away. Indeed, World Bank President Ajay Banga has committed to an external investigation of the entire fiasco. The Bridge investigation highlighted two significant accou...
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10:00—1:00 PM EST | 3-6 PM BST
April 19, 2024
Intended as an in-person conversation, this event will feature participants from across academia, civil society, and government. Representatives from civil society and government will join from the African Foundation for Development, African Climate Mobility Initiative, Center for Global Development...
April 11, 2024
Ahead of the highly anticipated World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakesh, the Center for Global Development has unveiled a groundbreaking tool—the MDB Reform Tracker. This tracker explores how the six largest multilateral development banks are tracking against three major reform agenda:
Blog Post
April 09, 2024
It's spring in DC, which means it's time once again for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Finance ministers, central bank governors, and other top officials from around the world gather to discuss the state of the world economy and the international financial architecture, and CGD's researchers ar...