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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...
Oct
14
2022
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada), 4:00 - 5:00pm British Summer Time (BST), 5:00 - 6:00pm Central European Time (CET)
October 06, 2022
In this conversation at the time of the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF, CGD President Masood Ahmed, CGD Co-Director of Development Cooperation in Europe and Senior Policy Fellow Mikaela Gavas, EIB President Werner Hoyer, and EIB Vice-President Thomas Östros will discuss how the EIB and o...
Oct
11
2022
1:30—3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) /5:30 - 7:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 7:30 - 9:00pm Central European Time (CET)
October 05, 2022
In July, the G20 published the report it had commissioned from an independent panel of experts to assess MDB capital adequacy. The report's recommendations, if implemented, would support a major increase in collective MDB lending, likely reaching hundreds of billions of dollars over time. The report...
Oct
6
2022
11:00—11:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 3:00 - 3:30 pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 4:00 - 4:30pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 03, 2022
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, October 6, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen will deliver remarks in Washington on key challenges facing the global economy—including shocks from COVID-19 and Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine—and their acute impact on developing countries and relationship with lo...
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...
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
April 22, 2022
Global debt has reached an unprecedented high, surpassing levels experienced in the infamous 1980s crisis. For debt-burdened countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted their repayment capacity due to increased crisis spending. Low-income countries (LICs) are experiencing the brunt of thi...