Finance and Investment

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BRIEFS
More Mobilizing, Less Lending: A Pragmatic Proposal for MDBs
Nancy Lee
April 03, 2018
MDB private sector operations or windows (PSWs) are essential actors in mobilizing private finance for development, but their mobilization track record to date falls far short of a meaningful contribution to annual SDG financing gaps in the trillions
Blog Post
Can Fiscal Rules and Institutions Soften the Impact of Politics?
Sanjeev Gupta
March 29, 2018
I spoke at the 30th Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This year’s seminar focused on the role of fiscal policy in achieving more inclusive and equitable economic growth to meet the 2030 agenda of the SDGs...
BRIEFS
Mindful Saving: Exploring the Power of Savings for Women (Factsheet)
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
March 22, 2018
Mobile savings hold great promise for empowering women entrepreneurs. Women are often disproportionately burdened by high transaction costs to access savings accounts.
CGD NOTES
Mindful Saving: Exploring the Power of Savings for Women
Mayra Buvinic
and
Tanvi Jaluka
March 22, 2018
Mobile savings hold great promise, because they can considerably reduce transaction costs that can be unduly heavy for women. Two questions guide us: how can we encourage more women microentrepreneurs to access formal savings accounts, and is mobile saving a particularly fitting solution? This serie...
WORKING PAPERS
Short-Term Impacts of Improved Access to Mobile Savings, with and without Business Training: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania - Working Paper 478
Gautam Bastian et al.
March 16, 2018
This paper presents short-term results from an experiment randomizing the promotion and registration of a mobile savings account among women microentrepreneurs in Tanzania, with and without business training. Six months post-intervention, the results show that women save substantially more through t...
WORKING PAPERS
Paraguay: Is Good Macro Policy Enough to Ensure Adequate Resilience to Adverse External Shocks? How Does It Compare to Other Emerging Markets? - Working Paper 477
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
March 15, 2018
This paper assesses the resilience of Paraguay’s economic and financial stability to external shocks and reaches two main conclusions.
Blog Post
How Illicit Finance Controls Can Make It Harder for Nonprofits to Serve the World’s Neediest —and What to Do about It
Jim Woodsome
and
Michael Pisa
March 05, 2018
A growing number of humanitarian aid organizations operating in conflict zones are  having trouble finding banks willing to work with them. We attended an international stakeholder dialogue on ensuring financial services for nonprofit organizations, and offer our preliminary thou...