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Masood Ahmed: Beyond the Numbers: Why the World Needs a More Ambitious MDB Response to COVID-19 A recent CGD paper and the World Bank’s response focused on precisely how much financial support the Bank is likely to provide this year to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and whether this would match with targets the institution set for itself at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.	Mon, Nov 16, 2020	Center for Global Development
Scott Morris and Amanda Glassman: IDB Governors: The Case for Capital Replenishment Needs To Be Made This week, the Inter-American Development Bank’s governors gather for their annual meeting.	Thu, Mar 18, 2021	Center for Global Development
Masood Ahmed and Amanda Glassman: Now and Later: The Urgent Need for Smart Finance and Clear Governance on Pandemic Threats Eighteen months into the worst pandemic in a century, we still don’t have a credible, fully financed, time bound battle plan to bring this suffering to an end.	Fri, Jul 9, 2021	Center for Global Development
Nancy Lee, Scott Morris, Clemence Landers, and Erin Collinson: $1.9 Trillion and No Money for the Multilateral Development Banks? The Biden administration and the Congress rightly went big in the recently passed American Rescue Plan at a time of tremendous need.	Mon, Mar 22, 2021	Center for Global Development
Scott Morris: Testimony on China’s Lending Practices and the International Debt Architecture On May 18, 2021, CGD Senior Fellow Scott Morris testified before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy at a hearing on “Examining Belt and Road: The Lending Practices of the People’s Republic of China and Impact on the International Debt Architecture.”	Tue, May 18, 2021	Center for Global Development
Scott Morris , Rowan Rockafellow and Sarah Rose: Mapping China’s Participation in Multilateral Development Institutions and Funds China has emerged as a leading participant in multilateral development organizations. In many ways, this is a welcome development. Today’s global challenges, including COVID-19 and climate change, require an international response and have prompted renewed calls for increased multilateral engagement by the major economy countries. This, combined with the recognition of multilateral institutions’ high standards for transparency and environmental safeguards, have led the United States at times to encourage China to step up its multilateral contributions. At the same time, countervailing voices focused on strategic competition increasingly view China’s multilateral participation with skepticism.	Thu, Nov 18, 2021	Center for Global Development
Nancy Lee and Rakan Aboneaaj : MDBs to the Rescue? The Evidence on COVID-19 Response The world is now more than a year into the second global crisis of the century. Both the current pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) more than 10 years ago tested the capacity of international financial institutions to respond with speed and scale.	Fri, May 21, 2021	Center for Global Development
Mark R. Yzaguirre: Did We Really Think The Postwar Liberal Order Would Last Forever? In January of 2017, I wrote a piece at the Hill suggesting that then-incoming President Trump’s foreign policy, while seemingly chaotic and unpredictable, actually had a basic underlying rationale.	Wed, Jun 20, 2018	Arc Digital
Clay Lowery and Kevin Wolf: A rare, nonpartisan good news story in Washington One of the government’s most important obligations is to protect our national security. Getting the details right for how to do so often leads to debate and disagreement, as it should. Unfortunately, such discussions can devolve into partisan acrimony.	Wed, Aug 15, 2018	The Hill
Bianca Taylor: The Fed Needs More Flexibility to Act More Equitably The Fed must be equipped to handle the threat of deflation caused by widespread catastrophic natural disasters — without exacerbating inequities.	Wed, Jan 27, 2021	The Hill