Recommendations
Confronting the Macroeconomic Challenges of Climate Change: The Road Ahead for the IMF
7th April 2020 This paper was written as background for a seminar with the IMF and climate experts that CGD co-sponsored with the European Climate Foundation... →
Chinese and World Bank Lending Terms: A Systematic Comparison Across 157 Countries and 15 Years
7th April 2020 China’s lending volumes in developing countries far surpass those of other bilateral creditors and compare in scale only to World Bank lending... →
Integrating ‘anticipatory action’ in disaster risk management
7th April 2020 Anticipatory action’ (AA) encompasses a set of planned and pre-financed measures taken when a disaster is imminent, prior to a shock or before... →
How tax officials in lower-income countries can respond to the coronavirus pandemic
7th April 2020 This paper was produced as part of the DFID funded Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TaxDev) project. TaxDev aims to contribute to... →
Adaptive leadership in the coronavirus response: bridging science, policy and practice
7th April 2020 The coronavirus pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to science, policy and the interface between the two. How – and how quickly –... →
Preserve, Protect and Defend: Global Nationalization Risk
7th April 2020 The extent of governmental involvement in their national economies goes to the very heart of political and economic debates that have raged since... →
Covid-19 Ministerial Briefings and Accountability
6th April 2020 One of the heartening signs of accountability and good governance in this time of pandemic has been the almost daily updates which various... →
Covid19: Making the Economy More Human
6th April 2020 “South Africa (like the rest of the world) needs a structural adjustment that places the realisation of the Constitutional vision of social justice... →
The Covid-19 Lockdown and Tertiary Education
6th April 2020 The Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has forced many nations to take the difficult decision of closing off all contact with the outside world. As a... →
Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
2nd April 2020 Times of economic uncertainty, civil unrest and disaster are linked to a myriad of risk factors for increased violence against women and children... →
