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Oct 17, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon
This article is an adapted version of ODI's MDB Insights newsletter. Interested in development finance and the MDB reform agenda? Sign up to MDB Insights to hear more from Annalisa. Hello and welcome back to MDB Insights – the newsletter which rounds up ODI’s latest ideas, analysis and events about multilateral development bank (MDB) reform, and other related pressing development finance issues.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon |Mandeep Bains
The challenges for development seem to be as large as ever. Progress has been reversed in several areas due to the polycrisis of recent years, including COVID-19, conflicts, disasters, debt distress and food insecurity. The Sustainable Development Goals are badly off track. And all this is happening while the window for climate action is closing.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Annalisa Prizzon |Steve Wiggins |Adriana Abdenur |Habiba Ahut Daggash
1 FRAMING AND PRACTICAL MATTERS The rise of climate change up the international agenda is an opportunity for development and poverty alleviation, but perhaps also a threat. An opportunity because the issues that climate change brings to the fore are similar to those that matter for development. Overlaps, complementarities, and synergies exist between investment and policies for development and those aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon
This year's fifth issue of Development Policy Review is now available online. As a reminder, Development Policy Review is an online-only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the relationship between research and policy in all aspects of international development. It covers various social science disciplines, intellectual persuasions, institutional backgrounds, and regions. We encourage submissions of manuscripts in these disciplines, especially from scholars outside Europe and North America.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon |Bianca Getzel |Yue Cao |Sarah Colenbrander
Building on data analyses and an extensive review of the literature and policy documents of the seven largest MDBs (the World Bank and six regional development banks: AfDB, AIIB, AsDB, EIB, EBRD and IADB), this review offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of MDBs abilities to provide and finance GPGs.It aims to:Define what GPGs are and explain why they are underprovided.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon
We are already in the second half of the publication year, and the fourth issue of Development Policy Review for 2024 is now available. As a reminder, Development Policy Review is an online-only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the relationship between research and policy in all aspects of international development. It covers various social science disciplines, intellectual persuasions, institutional backgrounds, and regions.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon
We are already in the middle of the publication year, and the third issue of Development Policy Review for 2024 is now available. Development Policy Review is an online-only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the relationship between research and policy in all aspects of international development. It covers various social science disciplines, intellectual persuasions, institutional backgrounds, and regions.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon
After seven days in Washington D.C., nearly 100,000 steps on my pedometer, and an unspecified number of meetings and discussions, how would I recount what happened (and didn’t happen) at this year’s World Bank Spring Meetings? 1. The debate on the reform agenda of multilateral development banks (MDBs) is shifting from challenges to delivering solutions.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
odi.org | Annalisa Prizzon |Tom Alwyn
This article is an adapted version of ODI's MDB Insights newsletter. Interested in development finance and the MDB reform agenda? Sign up to MDB Insights to hear more from us. Hello and welcome back to MDB Insights – the newsletter which rounds up ODI’s latest ideas and analysis about multilateral development bank (MDB) reform, and other related pressing development finance issues.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
odi.org | Sara Pantuliano |Annalisa Prizzon |Gregory Chen |Seynabou Sakho
Global public debt is at unprecedented levels. The UN has reported that nearly half of the world’s population lives in countries that spend more paying off debts to other countries than they spend on healthcare for their own people. While needs soar as countries try to address the impact of the poly-crisis and invest significantly to transform their economies and societies, economic growth is in sharp retreat in many nations in the Global South.
