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Tracking the Scale and Speed of the World Bank’s COVID Response: April 2021 Update

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dc.creator Morris, Scott
dc.creator Sandefur, Justin
dc.creator Yang, George
dc.date 2021-09-09T13:20:26Z
dc.date 2021-09-09T13:20:26Z
dc.date 2021-04-05
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:48:39Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:48:39Z
dc.identifier Morris. S.; Sandefur. J. and Yang. G. (2021) 'Tracking the Scale and Speed of the World Bank’s COVID Response: April 2021 Update,' Report, Center for Global Development
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16838
dc.identifier https://cgdev.org/publication/tracking-scale-and-speed-world-banks-covid-response-april-2021-update
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198643
dc.description Last year at this time, the World Bank announced its intention to provide $104 billion in financing to developing country governments to help them respond to the COVID-19 crisis. We took stock of those efforts seven months ago in a Center for Global Development working paper and accompanying blog post. We noted that Bank lending had accelerated significantly in 2020 relative to 2019, but that actual disbursements were not on track to meet the Bank’s own COVID lending goals, that the absolute magnitudes were dwarfed by the depth of the crisis facing low- and lower-middle income countries, and that the Bank bureaucracy was failing to pivot to more flexible, rapid financing instruments at its disposal. More than a year into the pandemic, it’s time to check in again on the Bank’s crisis financing. We revisit four basic questions about the Bank’s lending performance since it originally announced its COVID response.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Center for Global Development
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights © 2021 Center for Global Development
dc.subject Finance
dc.subject Health
dc.title Tracking the Scale and Speed of the World Bank’s COVID Response: April 2021 Update
dc.type Other


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