Scale dominated the World Bank annual meetings – but where was the evidence of impact?
At the recent World Bank annual meetings, many gatherings focused on how the World Bank and other multilateral development banks and development finance institutions could double down on their record-breaking private capital mobilisation figures. The message was that the World Bank needs to do more to crowd in private finance, and to do it faster. What was much less clear was where development impact – whether measured in terms of project results or market impacts – featured in these conversations. This blog unpacks the main takeaways from the Publish What You Fund team’s trip to the annual meetings.
