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2023
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10:00—11:15 AM ET / 3:00-4:15 PM GMT
November 20, 2023
In this edition of the Future of Development series, Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Somanathan will join host Ranil Dissanayake to discuss environmental externalities and the future of development. They will focus on how governments (and others) can address the environmental costs of widespread and d...
POLICY PAPERS
July 26, 2023
Public and policy discourse has been imprecise in its definition of what constitutes a global public good, with implications for our understanding of how MDBs contribute to them. Once this is corrected for, it becomes apparent that, except under restrictive conditions that are unlikely to hold in th...
Blog Post
July 26, 2023
The effects of anthropogenic climate change are upon us, and the time for serious action is past due. In this context it is unsurprising that many observers are turning to the multilateral development banks (MDBs) for this action. These are institutions whose names inspire the potential for grand ac...
BRIEFS
June 08, 2023
To meet many of today’s most pressing challenges, we need to find new solutions. But the fastest, cheapest, and most effective way to encourage high-impact innovation isn’t always obvious. Governments, philanthropists, and the private sector typically invest in research and development (R&D) by bett...
Blog Post
November 23, 2022
Living up to the challenge of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, especially after meagre emission reduction outcomes at COP 27, will not only require much more finance but also much more effective climate finance—from both the public and private sectors. The world will need to develop new te...
POLICY PAPERS
November 03, 2022
Pull financing is a powerful but underused mechanism for incentivising progress on hard-to-tackle social problems for which innovation or the take-up of innovation may be part of the solution. It should become part of the ongoing landscape for climate and development work. This paper sets out the sp...
Blog Post
November 03, 2022
In a new paper, we set out the case for using pull financing to solve problems that affect both development and climate outcomes by incentivising transformational change through technical innovation or massive-scale production and distribution of existing technologies. However, one big question our ...
Blog Post
November 03, 2022
Pull financing is a powerful but underused mechanism for incentivising progress on hard-to-tackle social problems for which innovation or the take up of innovation may be part of the solution. In a new paper, published today, we argue that pull financing can play an important role in the generation ...
CGD NOTES
June 09, 2022
As one of the only truly global institutions, the World Bank is uniquely positioned to be the world’s premier source funding for global public goods. But despite its global coverage, the World Bank has never truly been oriented towards global challenges. Its mission has been defined primarily by ind...