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Multilateral Development Banks for a Global Future: The Perspective of Emerging Market Leaders
October 12, 2022 Eastern TimeWith 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. Most of the world’s people and most of the world’s poor live in MICs. Such countries are also significant users of World Bank’s products and services, and many are strong supporters of GPGs. At the time of the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF, President [...]
Financing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Developing Countries
October 10, 2022The provision of international financial assistance to help developing countries undertake measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation is a fundamental element in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under which the negotiations on climate change are being conducted. This paper attempts to quantify the scale and possible composition of international financial assistance that might be required to help developing countries fulfil the commitments undertaken in COP26. The paper is in four parts. Section I provides a brief historical review of how the commitment to provide financial assistance [...]
Global Challenges Require Global Solutions: Transforming the MDB System
October 17, 2021 Eastern TimePANELISTS Lawrence Summers, Chares W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University Donald Kaberuka, Chairman and Managing Partner, SouthBridge Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development MODERATOR Clemence Landers, Policy Fellow, CGD
Secretary Yellen to Deliver Remarks on International Development and Evolving the Multilateral Development Banks
October 6, 2022 Eastern TimeOpening Remarks Masood Ahmed, President Center for Global Development Speaker Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury