International Financial Institutions

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Blog Post
An Agenda for Makhtar Diop at the IFC
Charles Kenny et al.
February 18, 2021
Makhtar Diop, former minister of finance in Senegal and current vice president for infrastructure at the World Bank, has been tapped to be the next head of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group’s private sector investment arm. This is welcome news: Diop’s experience and talents...
WORKING PAPERS
Measuring the Development Impact of the IFC and Development Finance
Charles Kenny
and
George Yang
December 16, 2020
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) tend to look at their development impact using project-level indicators of outputs and employment impacts.
Blog Post
What Are the Development Outcomes of Development Finance?
Charles Kenny
December 15, 2020
What impact do development finance institutions (DFIs) like the IFC have on actual development? Today, George Yang and I release a paper that tries to take a sectoral approach to impact: does an IFC electricity investment lead to more power production per capita in a country, or financing provided t...
CGD NOTES
Strengthening Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding at the UN and IFIs: Key Ideas and Recommendations
December 09, 2020
All three of the recent UN secretary-general reports on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (2018, 2019, and 2020) take note of the need to enhance collaboration between the UN—not only its development system but also its peace and security and humanitarian arms—with international financial instituti...
CGD NOTES
Some Thoughts on Country Platforms
Mark Plant
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
Gender Equity in Development Finance: How Are DFIs Doing?
Nancy Lee et al.
September 10, 2020
Now more than ever women need equal access to development finance; without it, COVID-19 & DFI response efforts could potentially widen the already-significant gender gaps. Explore our new survey on gender equity in development finance.
CGD NOTES
Transparency at Development Finance Institutions: Moving to Better Practice
Charles Kenny
July 24, 2020
Development finance institutions (DFIs) suggest that transparency is important to their development impact, and many aim to be in a leadership position on reporting about their work, but actual practice on transparency varies significantly between DFIs.