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Investing for a Sustainable Future in an Age of Disorder and Uncertainty: A Conversation with the European Investment Bank (EIB)
April 13, 2023 ETFEATURING Werner Hoyer, President, European Investment Bank (EIB) Maria Shaw-Barragan, Director of Lending for Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and Latin America, EIB Global MODERATORS Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development Mikaela Gavas, Managing Director, Europe and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development This event will be hosted in-person at CGD's DC office: 2055 L St NW, 5th floor, Washington, DC 20036 As one of the world’s main financers of climate action, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has placed sustainability at the heart of its activities. In 2019, in [...]
What Does World Bank Success Look Like?
April 10, 2023This blog is one in a series by experts across the Center for Global Development ahead of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings. Each post in the series will put forward a tangible policy “win” for the World Bank or the broader MDB system that the author would like to see emerge from the Spring Meetings. Read the other posts in the series, and stay tuned for more. On the face of it, the case for a general capital increase for the World Bank should be obvious and urgent in our age of the polycrisis. [...]
The Spring Meetings Should Launch a Climate-Dedicated IBRD Capital Increase
April 3, 2023This blog is one in a series by experts across the Center for Global Development ahead of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings. Each post in the series will put forward a tangible policy “win” for the World Bank or the broader MDB system that the author would like to see emerge from the Spring Meetings. Stay tuned for the rest of the series in the coming days. The World Bank shouldn’t become a dedicated climate bank: that’s not what its client countries want, and the global development agenda (the D [...]
In Conversation: Ajay Banga and Afsaneh Beschloss on the Future of the World Bank
April 5, 2023 ETFEATURING Ajay Banga, Candidate for President of the World Bank Group IN CONVERSATION WITH Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder and CEO, RockCreek, and Board Member, Center for Global Development https://www.youtube.com/embed/y6cq02qRVkw This event will be hosted in-person at CGD's DC office: 2055 L St NW, 5th floor, Washington, DC 20036 Ajay Banga, candidate for President of the World Bank Group, will sit down with Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder and CEO of RockCreek and a CGD board member, to discuss the World Bank’s role in helping countries respond to pressing development and global challenges, including climate [...]