Past Events
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Tackling Africa’s Debt Crisis: Pathways to Progress through Improved Credit Ratings
In Person
The role of African Multilateral Financial Institutions in catalyzing sustainable economic development in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Hybrid
How Can We Make Climate Finance Fit for Purpose? A Conversation with the Green Climate Fund’s Mafalda Duarte
Hybrid
IDA and the Global Safety Net
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What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us: Better Measurement and Disclosure of MDB Private Finance Mobilization Data
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Making Progress on Gender Equity at the IFIs
Hybrid
A Fireside Chat with IDB President Ilan Goldfajn
Hybrid
Bretton Woods at 80: Priorities for the Next Decade
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Investing for resilience: A panel discussion with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Jin Liqun
Virtual
Why and How the MDB Capital Adequacy Framework Report Had Impact
Hybrid
MDB Reform and African Priorities
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A Fireside Chat with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Financing resilient prosperity in SIDS
Hybrid
What’s the fuss? The (unfulfilled) promise of country platforms
Virtual
How to better reach underserved borrowers
Hybrid
Mobilizing the Private Sector: How MDBs Can Step Up Their Catalytic Role
Hybrid
A Fireside Chat with AIIB President Jin Liqun
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Improving the Measurement and Disclosure of Private Capital Mobilization by MDBs/DFIs
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A Fireside Chat with Kristalina Georgieva
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Introducing the Impact Disclosure Guidance: A Better Approach to SDG Impact Reporting
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A Fireside Chat with EIB Group President Nadia Calviño
Virtual
Webinar – Blended finance for climate action: good value for money?
Virtual
Staying in the Lane – What Does it Mean for the IMF & Climate?
Hybrid
From Pipelines to Programs: Advancing Inclusive Leadership in IFIs for More Equitable Development
Virtual
Shaping Africa’s Future: Development Challenges and Opportunities
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A Fireside Chat with World Bank President Ajay Banga
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Unlocking Dev. Finance: Canada’s Role in African and Emerging Economies
Virtual
Transformation of the MDBs: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
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Unpacking the Africa Climate Summit – Leveraging External Finance for Africa’s Green Industrialization
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Rethinking Climate Finance: MDBs and Private Sector Mobilisation
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Harnessing Private Capital For Global Public Goods: Issues, Challenges and Solutions
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Challenges to Growth in Latin America and the role of the IDB
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Building AIIB: Asia’s new infrastructure development bank and Australia’s strategic role
Virtual
Stepping out of the Shadows: Why it is time to recognize and empower National Development Banks in the G20 and beyond to support the Green Transition.
In Person
Roundtable: Africa’s Agenda for Global Financial Architecture Reform
Hybrid
MDB Evolution: How to Make MDBs Work as a System
Virtual
Strengthening International Cooperation in a Fragmenting Global Economy
Virtual
The World Bank Inspection Panel at 30 Years: Reflections on the First MDB Accountability Mechanism
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Strengthening MDBs: the triple agenda
In Person
Maximising the developmental value of MDB callable capital
In Person
How can MDBs be more responsive to borrower clients and citizens? Improving the operational model
Virtual
Navigating the poly-crisis: 2023 ODI Public Finance Conference
Hybrid
POSTPONED: Perspectives of the Global South on MDB Reform: A High-Level Conference
ADB Report on Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero
Growing Out of Debt: Perspectives from Developing Countries Around the World
Making Finance Ministries Part of the Push for Net Zero Emissions
What are the options for funding loss and damage?
Think Change podcast episode: how can we build a just financial relationship between Global North and Global South?
Multilateral development bank reform in a climate-changed world: A panel discussion with ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa
Rebranding or reshaping the global financial architecture? MDBs reform, Bridgetown Initiative and the New Global Financial Pact
Symposium and evening event: Multilateral development banks in the 21st century
Multilateral Development Banks in the 21st Century: what reforms for mandates, governance and financing?
What Do Middle Income Countries Want from the Multilateral Development Banks? Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Jin Liqun in Conversation with Masood Ahmed
Investing for a Sustainable Future in an Age of Disorder and Uncertainty: A Conversation with the European Investment Bank (EIB)
Beyond the Dollars: Ensuring World Bank Evolution Means Evidence and Impact Revolution, Too
The Other Global Challenge: Pandemic Risks and the World Bank Roadmap
Adapting Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to Global Challenges: Perspectives of African Leaders on Reform
JETPs and the Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Shaping and Driving the Just Energy Transition
A Conversation with IDB President Ilan Goldfajn
In Conversation: Ajay Banga and Afsaneh Beschloss on the Future of the World Bank
Priorities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean: a panel discussion with IDB President Ilan Goldfajn
Promoting Climate-Resilient and Green Development in Africa
Future of Development Forum
Climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and pandemics. These global challenges are growing in urgency, and complexity—and they are not confined by borders. While wealthy countries are aging and their growth rates are faltering, the traditional manufacturing-led path to rapid growth in poorer countries is narrowing.
Trends and disruptors in multilateral finance: looking ahead with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Latin America and the Caribbean at a Crossroads: What Agenda and Role for the Inter-American Development Bank?
COVID-19 and related economic shocks have had important but heterogeneous impact across the Latin American and Caribbean region, which also faces elevated climate risks, increasing rates of poverty, declining life expectancy in some countries, and unprecedented rates of crime and violence. The International Monetary Fund now forecasts average growth of 1.7% in 2023 with high...
Multilateral Development Banks for a Global Future: The Perspective of Emerging Market Leaders
With increasing challenges that go beyond national borders, the World Bank and other MDBs must quickly transform themselves and become truly global banks – through broader mandates, better governance, and modern business models. Middle-income countries will be a crucial part of this transformation.
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.