World Bank Spring Meetings 2025: Employment – The Path to Prosperity Event Overview: The World Bank Spring Meetings 2025 session, “Employment: The Path to Prosperity,” confronted one of the most pressing challenges of our time: the impending youth employment crisis in emerging and developing countries. With 1.2 billion young people expected to enter the workforce […]

Report on the Youth Summit: Day 2 – Youth Innovate for a Livable Planet Event: Les jeunes innovent pour une planète vivable | Sommet de la jeunesse : Jour 2 This report summarizes key discussions from Day 2 of the 12th annual Youth Summit, focusing on the powerful intersection of creative industries and sustainable finance […]

Digital Transformation and Inclusive Connectivity: Key Insights from the Global Digital Summit 2025 Event: Global Digital Summit 2025 (Sommet mondial du numérique 2025) Theme: “Digital Paths for All” (« Voies numériques pour tous ») Speakers: Makhtar Diop, CEO, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Vivek Badrinath, CEO, GSMA This report synthesizes key discussions from a session […]

Taxing Times: Mobilizing Revenues for South Asia’s Fiscal Resilience Washington D.C. – Amidst a challenging global economic environment, South Asia faces an urgent imperative to bolster its fiscal resilience through enhanced domestic revenue mobilization (DRM). A recent World Bank event, “Taxing Times: Mobilizing Revenues in South Asia,” underscored the region’s unique fiscal vulnerabilities and explored […]

Summary In a detailed discussion on The Development Podcast, Junaid Ahmad, a senior official at the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), outlined the strategic shift in development finance from traditional direct lending to a model focused on leveraging private capital. Ahmad explained that guarantees are a critical tool for mobilizing the vast […]