A growing incoherence is clouding global debates over how to achieve the key development goals of the 2020s — a profound mismatch exists between international policy advocacy and the research-based solutions necessary to achieve the desired development outcomes.
It’s time to reconcile ends and means. On July 9 and 10, the World Bank and the Center for Global Development are co-hosting the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE).
On this first day, the conference aims to bring coherence to development policy debates by bringing together the world’s top economic minds to focus on four interrelated questions:
- How can climate finance be increased, without deprioritizing other key development issues?
- How should the world respond to the global debt crisis and promote future economic growth?
- What are the implications of recent industrial policy shifts for the Global South’s future growth pathways, and how can countries adapt?
- How can private capital be mobilized for these issues and others?
It has been a day of extensive learning, re-learning, and drawing inspiration from great minds on these implications for our governments, firms, and communities in Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa.