Branching out

As bilateral aid retreats, the world’s development banks are reaching further than ever. Their critics worry that they have lost the plot. In London in mid-May 2025, at its first Annual Meeting in the city for nine years, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s governors granted recipient-country status to Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria. […] Branching out was originally published on Emerging Europe.