ODI on the 2024 Spring Meetings
The World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings get under way in Washington, D.C. on 15 April at a time when global public debt levels are at a record high, as the world continues to grapple with the impacts of the poly-crisis.
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) must urgently step up to better support countries most in need.
This page rounds up our latest evidence, ideas and events on how MDBs can more effectively tackle today's biggest global challenges.
Our events programme
Watch back ODI Day events at the Spring Meetings
We held a series of events to "think forward" on critical development finance challenges.
Watch back our event videos as leading thinkers debate some of the big talking points that have shaped the Spring Meetings.
The case for IDA replenishment
Donors must step up to the World Bank’s call to replenish IDA – its fund for the world's poorest countries.
Tackling debt, transforming economies – why is the IDA replenishment so urgent?
Guests explore the case for the IDA to become more effective and efficient at a time of soaring needs.
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Matching finance to need
This discussion examines ways the international community can better deploy public finance and concessional flows to mobilise private capital and rebuild trust between the Global North and South.
Watch back the event (Davos 2024)
How MDBs can make the best use of callable capital
Major MDBs (and their shareholders) should better utilise callable capital – an unusual and vast financial guarantee – to tackle today’s global crises.
Event: Maximising the developmental value of MDB callable capital: project findings and policy options (17 April)
ODI is leading a project on MDB callable capital in collaboration with the MDB Challenge Fund. The aim of the workshop will be to highlight the project’s research findings, engage relevant stakeholders and influence policy discussions on callable capital.
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Project: Maximising the developmental value of MDB callable capital
The project aims to increase understanding of what callable capital is and how it can be better integrated into multilateral development banks' (MDBs) capital adequacy frameworks.
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The role of MDBs in fragile and conflict-affected states
MDBs must embrace an agenda for reform if they are to catalyse transformative change in fragile and conflict-affected states.
Event: How to better reach underserved borrowers (17 April)
This event will examine what approaches MDBs and DFIs have been taking to increase their lending and support to these underserved markets and what needs to be done to increase support.
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How MDBs can help tackle the climate crisis
MDBs can play a vital role in supporting Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) – arrangements whereby wealthy countries provide finance to low and middle-income countries to help advance both their national development priorities and international climate goals.
Event: What’s the fuss? Realising the potential of country platforms (17 April)
This event will examine the role that MDBs can plausibly play in country platforms with the ambition of the JETPs.
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Project: Could 'country platforms' be the key to aligning national development priorities and climate goals?
Country Platforms are mechanisms by which a government can collaborate in a coordinated way with the full range of external stakeholders in a national investment plan, including MDBs, bilateral funders, the national development bank and the private sector.
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Meet our team at the Spring Meetings
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Sara Pantuliano
Chief Executive
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Andrew Herscowitz
Executive Director, ODI North America
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Hans Peter Lankes
Deputy Chief Executive and Managing Director
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Frederique Dahan
Director, Development and Public Finance programme
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Annalisa Prizzon
Principal Research Fellow
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Chris Humphrey
Senior Research Associate
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Cathal Long
Senior Research Fellow
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Emily Wilkinson
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative
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Shandelle Steadman
Senior Research Officer
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Sasha Kapadia
Director, Global Advisory
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Tegan Rogers
Director of Communications
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Andrew Yavinsky
Chief of Staff, ODI North America
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