Regional coverage from Latin America to Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and emerging Europe. Analysis organized by geography to track institutional developments where they happen.
The World Bank’s Water Forward initiative is introducing Country Water Compacts as a new mechanism for aligning water security reforms with MDB financing. Here is how they work, who is participating, and what they mean for infrastructure investment.
The WTO e-commerce moratorium expired in March 2026. A fragmented architecture of plurilateral blocs, interim coalitions, and regained policy space is replacing it.
The 2026 USMCA Joint Review begins July 1. Three scenarios, four indicators to watch.
The World Bank Group is scaling its guarantee platform to $6.4 billion annually for Africa. MIGA surpassed $100 billion in cumulative issuance.
The U.S. AI infrastructure race is shifting from market-led data center expansion to a federally coordinated compute buildout.
MDBs are transforming from traditional lenders into securitization platforms. Explore how IDB Invest and the World Bank are mobilizing billions in private capital for African infrastructure and LAC development.
An investment committee at a major development finance institution is reviewing a sovereign exposure recommendation for Cote d’Ivoire in April 2026. The IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis on the table rates it “moderate risk of debt distress.” What the model does not show: bilateral aid to Sub-Saharan Africa just fell 26.3% in a single year the … Read more
Wycliffe Shamiah, CEO of Kenya’s Retirement Benefits Authority, is sitting with a problem that defines the next decade of African infrastructure finance. KEPFIC the Kenya Pension Funds Investment Consortium, built explicitly to channel domestic pension savings into infrastructure has over $1 billion theoretically available under its 10% regulatory cap. Only $113 million has moved. Only … Read more
On April 15, 2026, Mihnea Constantinescu, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Moldova, sat on a panel at the IMF Spring Meetings in Washington and said something that should have alarmed every finance minister in the room. He was not describing a currency crisis or a debt spiral. He was describing something newer and … Read more
On April 17, 2026, the Peterson Institute for International Economics convened “Decentering the Dollar,” a session featuring former IMF Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld, former Financial Stability Board Chair Klaas Knot, and PIIE President Adam Posen. The same morning, Russia and China announced a formal halt to bilateral dollar settlement. For the fixed income committee at … Read more