The Resilience and Sustainability Trust – A Dialogue with Countries

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The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust is open for business and provides funding for countries to invest in the seismic changes taking place in the world, like climate change and pandemics. It also can help countries raise more private financing to help them adapt to a changing world.

Join Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation for a conversation about countries’ early experiences and their plans for their funding from the Trust, moderated by Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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