Multilateral Development Banks

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CGD Podcast: Decarbonization, MDB Reform, and the Private Sector with Ahmed Saeed
November 30, 2023
Ahmed Saeed of Allied Climate Partners and formerly the Asian Development Bank joins CGD’s Karen Mathiasen and Clemence Landers for a conversation on his organization's new approach to blended finance, how to bridge the private and public sectors more effectively, and how to balance climate mitigati...
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CGD Podcast: Accelerating MDB Reform with Stephanie von Friedeburg
July 27, 2023
Stephanie von Friedeburg of Citi and formerly the International Finance Corporation joins CGD’s Karen Mathiasen and Clemence Landers for a conversation on how to balance risk and impact in investment, why blended finance needs a rethink, and what mechanisms offer the most promising solutions to the ...
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IF-CAP Recap: The Asian Development Bank’s Big Climate Finance Bet
May 11, 2023
IF-CAP is a donor-backed guarantee facility, where public, private, and philanthropic financing partners take risk off the ADB’s balance sheet by guaranteeing to backstop repayments for ADB mitigation and adaptation climate projects. By guaranteeing repayments on specific climate investments, IF-CA...
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Inside the Development Leader's Conference 2021: Carin Jämtin and Alexia Latortue on the CGD Podcast
November 23, 2021
CGD's Masood Ahmed speaks with Sida's Carin Jämtin and MCC's Alexia Latortue about their takeaways from the 2021 Development Leaders Conference, including the tensions between national and global challenges, how development agency leaders can address them, and what these decisions might mean for age...
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Forging an MDB System: The Missing Piece in the Governance Architecture
April 20, 2021
Few would argue that collaboration and collective efforts across the multilateral development banks (MDBs) are not urgently needed. Yet while the logic and need are obvious, the actual extent of collaboration between MDBs is limited. Our recent paper explores how this gap in the international financ...
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Forging an MDB System: Strategy and Governance
April 20, 2021
The need for collaboration and cooperation across the multilateral development banks (MDBs) seems obvious. Donor governments set up these institutions to multiply their development dollars, to concentrate global development expertise, and to spread knowledge and evidence of effective development pol...
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Money in the Bank: What’s Behind Slow Demand for MDB Financing for Vaccines?
April 19, 2021
What's behind the limited demand for multilateral development bank financing for vaccine procurement and vaccination so far? Amanda Glassman reviews 5 possibilities.