Masood Ahmed
President of @CGDev. Fmr @IMFNews, @WorldBank, @DFID_UK. BSc & MSc from @LSEnews. Tweet on #development policy & economies of the Middle East.
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Financing the COVID-19 Response and Resilient Recovery: Discussion with the IMF Managing Director
Please join us for a conversation on global economic prospects and the COVID-19 response and recovery with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and CGD President Masood Ahmed. Less than two weeks after the Annual Meetings of the International...
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Please join @KGeorgieva and me for a conversation on Financing the COVID-19 Response and Resilient Recovery Send in your questions.
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Reinvigorate Multilateralism by Replacing its Operating Principle
The global policy debate on multilateralism has taken an intriguing turn during recent months and its focus has been widene, raising the question of how, under the current global geopolitical realities, a reinvigoration of multilateralism could...
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Thought provoking and insightful piece by Inge Kaul: Reinvigorate Multilateralism by Replacing its Operating Principle
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Why don’t economists do cost analysis in their impact evaluations?
There isn’t much cost analysis in impact evaluations. In McEwan’s review of 77 randomized experiments in education, he found that “56% of treatments reported no details on incremental costs, while most of the rest reported minimal details.”
Women’s Economic Empowerment in West Africa: Towards a Practical Research Agenda
Evidence on ‘what works’ to promote women’s economic empowerment has expanded in recent years but remains geographically unbalanced, with English speaking countries and those with more longstanding research traditions better represented. Recognizing...
Medium-Term Solutions for Rohingya Refugees and Hosts in Bangladesh
Over a series of publications, covering forest and landscape restoration, trade, private sector investment, labor mobility, and policy reforms to benefit refugees and host communities, we outline the steps that could be taken to develop a...
On Fragility, Tipping Points, and International Coordination
Drawing on work done jointly with CGD, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) just released a paper by Marc Jacquand that makes the case for better IFI-UN coordination in fragile states to better identify macroeconomic and...
Empathy and Client Relationships in Development Finance
Development finance is multifaceted, but empathy is a rarely discussed characteristic of the relationship between providers and clients. Sir Suma Chakrabarti and Hannah Brown argue this should be more of a consideration for DFIs.
Three Lessons from a New Phone Survey in Pakistan
After six months of school closures, Pakistan began reopening its schools in a phased manner on September 15. Schools had been shut since March 13, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the impacts, CGD partnered with TCF in...
COVID-19 in Pakistan: A Phone Survey to Assess Education, Economic, and Health-Related Outcomes
Using a phone survey of 1,211 households in Pakistan, we examine the effects of COVID-19 on three key domains: education, economic, and health-related.
Bretton Woods twins keep the multilateral flame alive
The devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on emerging and developing countries has put the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the centre of the fightback. This week’s annual meetings must set a course for 2021
What Do Past Shocks Tell Us About the Choices We’ll Face After the Pandemic? A Series on Education Finance Post-COVID
Despite calls to increase education spending in the wake of COVID, policymakers will have to make difficult tradeoffs. To help donors & policymakers facing touch decisions, a new CGD series will examine the evidence on COVID-19's impact on education...
Is the World Bank’s COVID Crisis Lending Big Enough, Fast Enough? New Evidence on Loan Disbursements
We compile a new data set, combining official sources with transaction-level records scraped from the World Bank website, spanning all commitments, disbursements, and payments on all World Bank loans from before the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis...
Supporting African Regional Integration for Growth: Prospects for MCC’s New Regional Compacts
While eight of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa, the region as a whole—much like the rest of the world—faces economic contraction it can ill afford. The continent’s post-COVID recovery will hinge, in part, on continued...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus
In this Viewpoint, 2 Harvard economists estimate the cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US to date from lost domestic output and health reduction at more than $16 trillion, as a way to put the lesser costs of public health...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
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Global Consensus Is Hard to Find. Here's Where Action Is Still Possible.
Key global meetings are about to start in Washington during the worst humanitarian and development crisis in modern history. Climate change and debt relief need to be high priorities.
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Let’s use the IMF/WB meetings this week to build consensus on four critical actions. Read my proposals and send your reactions. barrons.com/articles/globa… via @BarronsOnline
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New DAC Rules on Debt Relief – A Poor Measure of Donor Effort
The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) recently produced a long-awaited set of rules for how debt relief on loans should be scored as Official Development Assistance (ODA). Unfortunately, the rules suffer from a number of statistical problems...
Area-Based Humanitarian Coordination: A More Inclusive Model?
Coordination is essential to effective humanitarian action. But the humanitarian cluster coordination system has struggled with persistent weaknesses. It is dominated by large aid agencies and organizes humanitarian action around technical sectors,...
Mortality Data in COVID-19 and Beyond: The Bedrock of Global Health Security
To respond to COVID-19 in the near-term and bolster global health security in the long-term, it is clear: we need better mortality data.
UPDATE 1-Zambia creditor group rejects interest payment delay request
A group representing many holders of Zambian Eurobonds has rejected a government request to delay interest payments until April, but said it was ready to look at a potential bond swap.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Evidence from Two-wave Phone Surveys in China
This paper examines both the short-term and mid-term impact of COVID-19 restrictions on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), based on two waves of phone interviews with a previously surveyed large SME sample in China.