Africa must challenge the misleading narrative on preferred creditor status of its multilateral development banks.

Discover the different types of multilateral development banks, their roles in global finance, examples like the World Bank, and how they support economic development.

The World Bank and other multilateral development banks recently have begun reconsidering their self-imposed restrictions on financing fossil fuel projects. This change is being prompted in part by ...

The Joint MDB Water Security Financing Report 2024 marks a milestone in collective action by ten Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to strengthen global water security. Building on commitments made ...

Over the summer, Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) announced a series of debarments, further demonstrating the importance of robust compliance procedures among MDB fund recipients. On July 8, 2025, ...

Ned Rauch-Mannino is a Visiting Fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for National Security. MDBs can be a strategic soft power tool in support of America’s “peace ...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) is proposing an innovative plan to finance green energy projects in developing countries by buying up existing green loans to free up private sector ...

The Yunnan Highway Asset Management Project (the “Project”) was a c.$224 million infrastructure project intended to improve Yunnan’s trunk highway asset management capacity and provide a better level ...