Development Financing
Social and development impact bonds by the numbers
The context for aid is changing. Globalization has spurred economic convergence, upending the twentieth century economic balance and creating a smaller world where both problems and solutions spill across national borders more readily. This has given rise to a legion of new development actors, including emerging economies, NGOs, private businesses, and coordinating networks, who have brought fresh energy and resources to the field while rendering the prospect of genuine donor coordination ever more difficult. Global integration and competition for resources has raised the prominence of global public goods, whose equitable and sustainable provision requires international collective action. Meanwhile, poor countries are demanding a new form of partnership with the international community, built upon the principles of country ownership and mutual accountability.
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From G-20 meetings and the upcoming High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Korea to unfolding events in the Middle East and North Africa, leadership from the United States is crucial, placing pressure on the Obama administration to deliver on its promise of far-reaching reforms to U.S. global development efforts. And amidst this shifting global landscape is the issue of effectively communicating the importance of global development cooperation to both a national and global public, at a time when budget pressures are being felt across many of the world’s major economies
At the eighth annual Brookings Blum Roundtable, co-chaired by Kemal Derviş and Richard C. Blum, 50 thought-leaders in international development came together to discuss a new role for global development cooperation, one that employs inclusive and innovative approaches for tackling contemporary development problems and that leverages the resources of a large field of actors.
Roundtable Agenda
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Welcome: 8:40 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Open Remarks
• Richard C. Blum, Blum Capital Partners, LP and Founder of the Blum Center for
Developing Economies at Berkeley
• Mark Suzman, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Kemal Derviş, Global Economy and Development, Brookings
Statement of Purpose, Scene Setter, Comments on the Agenda
• Homi Kharas, Brookings
Session I: 9:00AM – 10:30AM
Reframing Development Cooperation
In almost any discussion of international development, foreign aid takes center stage. But while
aid can certainly be a catalyst for development, it does not work in isolation. Participants will
discuss the key objectives of development cooperation, consider what measures of development
cooperation are most valuable for recipients, and explore an effective balance of roles and
responsibilities – including both public and private players – in today’s evolving development
landscape.
Moderator
• Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute
Introductory Remarks
• Owen Barder, Center for Global Development
• Donald Kaberuka, African Development Bank Group
• Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley
• Elizabeth Littlefield, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Session II: 10:50AM – 12:20PM
The G-20’s Development Agenda
Last year’s G-20 meeting in Seoul marked the first time the group formally took up the issue of
development. There they announced the Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth and the
Multi-Year Action Plan for Development: two far-reaching policies which are expected to guide the
G20’s future agenda. What is the G-20’s comparative advantage vis-à-vis development, and how
can the group’s development efforts be strengthened and supported?
Moderator
• Mark Suzman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Introductory Remarks
• Alan Hirsch, The Presidency, South Africa
• Suman Bery, International Growth Centre
• Homi Kharas, Brookings
Dinner Program: 6:00PM – 9:00PM
A Conversation with Al Gore and Mary Robinson
Topic: “Energy Security and Climate Justice”
Moderator
• Kemal Derviş, Global Economy and Development, Brookings
Thursday, August 4, 2012
Session III: 9:00AM – 10:30AM
The Road to Buscan
In November, participants from over 150 countries, including ministers of developing and
developed countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development institutions, and civil
society representatives, will take part in the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in
Busan, South Korea. The forum is intended to take account of the development community’s
progress in achieving greater impact through aid and to redefine the aid effectiveness agenda to
adjust to a changing global landscape. What would constitute success or failure at Busan?
Moderator
• Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam America
Introductory Remarks
• J. Brian Atwood, Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development,
Development Assistance Committee
• Wonhyuk Lim, Korean Development Institute
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank
• Steven Radelet, U.S. Agency for International Development
Session IV: 10:50AM – 12:20PM
Lessons from the Middle East on Governance and Aid
Popular protests across the Middle East against authoritarian regimes have prompted reflection
on the role of aid to non-democratic and poorly governed countries. Some critics believe that aid
should only be given to relatively well-governed countries where it is more likely to be effective,
but for others, this amounts to collective punishment for the people who suffer under such
governments. Do aid allocation models need to change and what role can the development
community now play in supporting peaceful, democratic reform in the Middle East?
Moderator
• Madeleine K. Albright, Albright Stonebridge Group
Introductory Remarks
• Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota
• Sheila Herrling, Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Tarik Yousef, Silatech
Lunch Program: 12:30PM – 2:00PM
A Conversation with Thomas R. Nides, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
Moderator
• Richard C. Blum, Blum Capital Partners, LP and Founder of the Blum Center for Developing Economies at Berkeley
Friday, August 5, 2012
Session V: 9:00AM – 10:30AM
Implementing U.S. Development Reforms
The end of 2010 saw the completion of two major policy reviews in Washington concerned with
international development: the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development and the
Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. Progress on implementation has been
significant in many respects and meager in others. Additionally, despite directives to deliver on
many valuable priorities for improvement, essential components of fundamental reform are still
in need of address. Casting a shadow across the exercise, or alternatively serving as a spur to
focus, the budget environment has soured.
Moderator
• Jim Kolbe, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Introductory Remarks
• Rajiv Shah, U.S. Agency for International Development
• Samina Ahmed, International Crisis Group
• Robert Mosbacher, Jr., Mosbacher Energy Company
Session VI: 10:50AM – 12:20PM
Communicating Development Cooperation
Public interest in and support for aid matter. Yet in many aid giving countries, there is
widespread cynicism as to what end aid programs serve and ignorance as to what activities they
actually involve. What are the best examples of development efforts which have been
communicated successfully and what can we learn from this to shore up support for
development cooperation now and in the future?
Moderator
• Liz Schrayer, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
Introductory Remarks
• Steven Kull, Program on International Policy Attitudes
• Joshua Bolten, ONE
• S. Shankar Sastry, University of California, Berkeley
• Jack Leslie, Weber Shandwick
Closing Remarks: 12:20PM- 12:30PM
• Richard C. Blum, Blum Capital Partners, LP and Founder of the Blum Center for
Developing Economies at Berkeley
• Kemal Derviş, Global Economy and Development, Brookings
Public Event: 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Brookings and the Aspen Institute present “Development as National Security?”: A Conversation with Rajiv Shah, U.S. Agency for International Development; Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Richard J. Danzig, Center for a New American Security; and Susan C. Schwab, University of Maryland.
Moderator
• Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Welcome and Introductions
• Kemal Derviş, Brookings
Hosts
• Richard C. Blum and Senator Dianne Feinstein
