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Without debt relief, development bank reform will hit a ceiling: UNDP calls for urgent actions to avoid long-lasting development reversals

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner welcomed positive momentum toward multilateral bank reform at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week, but he urged bigger, broader investment to tackle poverty and protect the planet. "We welcome reform of multilateral development banks under new leadership, but the twin crises of poverty and climate demand significantly more. What is still missing is a broader and urgent discussion around restructuring debt, attracting private capital, and stimulating domestic resource mobilization - each of which is larger in scale than financing from development banks alone,” Steiner said.   [...]