Past Events
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Boosting MDBs’ Role and Capacity in Development Finance
In July, the G20 published the report it had commissioned from an independent panel of experts to assess MDB capital adequacy. The report's recommendations, if implemented, would support a major increase in collective MDB lending, likely reaching hundreds of billions of dollars over time. The report spells out how this expansion in lending can be achieved while...
Global Challenges Require Global Solutions: Transforming the MDB System
How can we rethink the World Bank and other MDBs to tackle the new, global challenges facing us today? This event marks the beginning of a new program of work from CGD on the next evolution of the MDBs—their evolving mandate to provide global public goods. Throughout the project CGD will consult key experts and...
Secretary Yellen to Deliver Remarks on International Development and Evolving the Multilateral Development Banks
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, October 6, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen delivered remarks in Washington on key challenges facing the global economy—including shocks from COVID-19 and Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine—and their acute impact on developing countries and relationship with longer-term development trends. Secretary Yellen outlined ideas for how the multilateral development banks...
Multilateral Development Banks’ Capital Adequacy Frameworks: Options for Reform?
In 2021, G20 members created an independent panel to evaluate whether MDB shareholder capital is being used efficiently and to understand whether MDBs can lend more without threatening their long-term financial integrity. As well as discussing the recommendations of the report and framing the emerging issues and priorities, this webinar will explore several related questions.
Multilateral Development Banks’ Capital Adequacy Frameworks: options for reform?
Green Hydrogen’s Contributions to the Energy Transition: Perspectives and Prerequisites
Brazil, Biodiversity and Global Challenges
Sustainability and the New Energy Economy in a Multipolar World
The Response of International and Regional Financial Institutions to COVID 19
The COVID-19 crisis has brought the global economy to its knees, by its intensity, scale, and far-reaching impacts. his webinar aims to assess the impact of the international response to COVID 19.