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Blog Post
The Case for an IDB Capital Increase Is Everywhere Except in the IDB’s Lending Numbers
March 01, 2021
Today the IDB is again making the case for a capital increase to its shareholders. Yet, despite an unfolding crisis that threatens development progress in Latin America to a degree that eclipses the Global Financial Crisis,  talk of a financing cliff at the bank is absent from its appeal for mo...
CGD NOTES
Some Thoughts on Country Platforms
December 08, 2020
Here are five questions that the G20 IFA Working Group might want to answer if it is to harness the energy of the enthusiasts and quell the skepticism of the cynics.
Blog Post
Debt Relief for Poor Countries: Three Ideas Whose Time Has Come
October 05, 2020
There are three critical and urgent issues that should rise to the top of the agenda for the upcoming meetings of the G20 and the IMF and World Bank. IMF shareholders should seize the moment to give the Fund a mandate to develop feasible but fit-for-purpose proposals in these areas.
Blog Post
Addressing Private Sector Debt through Sustainable Bond Guarantees
July 27, 2020
The latest G20 finance ministers meeting concluded with no major progress on debt relief for the world’s poorest countries, and a few setbacks. To date, no country eligible for the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative has requested a moratorium on their private sector debt. We are at an impasse....
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How G20 Finance Ministers Can Act Responsibly on An SDR Reallocation
July 02, 2020
How could the IMF's special drawing rights support developing countries to recover from COVID-19.
WORKING PAPERS
Finance for International Development (FID): A New Measure to Compare Traditional and Emerging Provider Countries’ Official Development Finance Efforts, and Some Provisional Results
April 09, 2020
In this working paper we present a new indicator—Finance for International Development (FID)—that attempts to fill this gap by measuring in a comparable way the flows of official, cross-border concessional finance provided by 40 major economies
Blog Post
Assessing the G20’s Finance for International Development
April 09, 2020
In this blog, we use our new measure–Finance for International Development–to look at the G20’s finance for development and consider which countries can step up their financial contribution, both during COVID-19 and beyond.