Development Finance on the Brink–But Not Without Alternatives Published: 24 June 2025 Commentary As global development finance falters, the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville offers a chance to rethink the system. It’s time to move beyond donor fixes and center justice, local agency, and structural reform.
"What we need is a structural response:" Deborah Düring in Interview Published: 4 April 2022 Interview Member of the German Bundestag Deborah Düring leads the Green parliamentary working group on economic cooperation and development. Before the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, we asked her a few questions about structural policy, Germany's role in international development, and inclusive prosperity.
Tomorrow's Climate Bank Today Published: 9 April 2021 Analysis What would a transformative, climate-friendly development bank that combines the best practices of MDBs actually look like?
Divided we fail - Vaccine diplomacy and its implications Published: 1 April 2021 Background No country is safe from COVID-19 until all countries are safe from COVID-19. To state the obvious: To overcome a pandemic of this magnitude, vaccines must be made available quickly, cheaply, and fairly.
Take-aways from the Finance in Common Summit Published: 16 November 2020 The first global summit of all Public Development Banks was, most of all, a missed opportunity. It was a missed opportunity not only to end fossil fuel investments, but also to take the urgent and concrete actions needed to address the intertwined health, climate and biodiversity crises.
Infrastructure is Everywhere Published: 5 November 2018 Video How are private investors financing infrastructure—especially institutional investors, such as pension funds, which hold over $100 trillion? And can these investors help achieve public goods, such as no carbon economies? An introduction to global infrastructure projects
The Hijacking of Global Financial Governance? Published: 23 April 2018 Analysis Meetings of G20 officials during the April 2018 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank set in motion revolutionary and lasting changes in the mission and organization of global financial governance.
The Priorities of Argentina’s G20 Presidency Published: 5 January 2018 This article reviews the priorities of Argentina’s G20 Presidency (see g20.org), in general, and the G20 Infrastructure Working Group, in particular.
