Air Pollution and Climate Change From Co-Benefits to Coherent Policies
This report brings much-needed realism to the climate and air pollution debate. It analyzes international experience to identify effective pathways to coherent policy packages that harness synergies and manage inevitable tensions between climate mitigation and air-quality management. It helps decision makers to prioritize pollutants and emission sources and implement regulations that will encourage economic actors to implement technical and behavioral measures in a way that quickly saves people’s lives.
Financing for Development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Priorities of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to the financing for development global policy agenda
The effects of the pandemic and the policies implemented in response have increased the liquidity needs of the countries of the region to confront the emergency phase. Within the current context of the pandemic, a financing for development agenda faces two interrelated challenges: short run and medium and long run challenges.
This report proposes a set of policy actions to address both challenges and then focuses on potential initiatives to build forward better.
Financing Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role and Perspectives of Multilateral Development Banks
The paper briefly describes the MDBs creation and financial model. Also, it analyzes the evolution of the mandates of MDBs across decades, as well as focuses on the description of the major MDBs in LAC. It further presents a perspective of MDBs outstanding, commitments and disbursements to the region in the past 25 years. Based on these recent trends, the role and outlook of MDBs in financing development in the region is discussed.