Multilateral Development Organizations

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's 2020 Trade Policy Agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 17, 2020. Anna Moneymaker/Pool via REUTERS

Op-Ed

USTR Lighthizer and US trade policy: Right goals, wrong strategy

Joshua P. Meltzer

Friday, June 26, 2020

Syrian children smile after a heavy snowstorm at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 8, 2015. Syrian refugees in Jordan's main Zaatari refugee camp appealed for help on Thursday after a regional storm buffeted the Middle East with blizzards, rain and strong winds. The temperatures, which usually average 13 Celsius (55.4 Fahrenheit ) this time of the year have plunged to 2 to zero Celsius (35.6-32 Fahrenheit), Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT CONFLICT)

Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

Stabilization and human development in a disordered Middle East and North Africa

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Joseph Saba, and Kevin Huggard

June 2020

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: The WHO, international institutions, and the COVID-19 response

Bonnie Jenkins and Bruce Jones

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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A protester gestures as he blocks the entrance to the United Nations headquarters with other protesters in Colombo July 6, 2010. The protesters on Tuesday blocked the entrance to the UN offices, trapping workers inside, to demand the immediate withdrawal of a panel advising UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on whether war crimes were committed in the final months of Sri Lanka's war last year against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. Ban appointed the three-member panel on June 22, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (SRI LANKA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS) - GM1E6761CKD01

Report

The purpose of multilateralism

Will Moreland

September 2019

Report

The new global agenda: Scale, urgency, and the future of the multilateral development bank system

Nicholas Stern and Amar Bhattacharya

Monday, July 1, 2019

Report

Sustainable financing for development

Homi Kharas, Sachin Chaturvedi, Mustafizur Rahman, and Imme Scholz

Sunday, March 31, 2019

A girl walks towards her family's tent at a refugee camp for people displaced by fightings between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Ain Issa, Syria October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro - RC182B251DD0

Global Development

Global development disrupted: Findings from a survey of 93 leaders

George Ingram and Kristin M. Lord

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

The United Nations flag flies in front of the Secretariat Building at the United Nations headquarters in New York City September 18, 2015. As leaders from almost 200 nations gather for the annual general assembly at the United Nations, the world body created 70 years ago, Reuters photographer Mike Segar documented quieter moments at the famed 18-acre headquarters on Manhattan's East Side. The U.N., established as the successor to the failed League of Nations after World War Two to prevent a similar conflict from occurring again, attracts more than a million visitors every year to its iconic New York site. The marathon of speeches and meetings this year will address issues from the migrant crisis in Europe to climate change and the fight against terrorism. REUTERS/Mike SegarPICTURE 3 OF 30 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "INSIDE THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS"SEARCH "INSIDE UN" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000219185

Report

An assessment of grant-based multilateral funding flows from 2014 to 2016

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Blog Posts

World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC

Future Development

What makes the World Bank so influential—its money or its ideas?

Bradley Parks, Ani Harutyunyan, and Matt DiLorenzo

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Pedestrians wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walk next to a sculpture of the world in a public park in Vina del Mar, Chile April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

Future Development

The world economy in 2020—the IMF gets it mostly right

Indermit Gill

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Future Development

COVID-19 uncertainty and the IMF

Douglas A. Rediker and Heidi Crebo-Rediker

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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Up Front

US cities leading on the Sustainable Development Goals

Amb. Sarah Mendelson and Anthony F. Pipa

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

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