This high-level side-event, co-organised by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), and ODI, will take place on the sidelines of the 2024 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group in Nairobi on 30th May 2024. The proposed topic for the side-event is well aligned with African Development Bank priorities, IDRC’s Strategy 2030, the AERC 2020-2025 Strategy and the ODI Strategy 2021-2025, which altogether share many common elements such as the aspirations towards a more inclusive and sustainable world, addressing the double challenges of global inequalities and climate change, and improving countries’ access to global finance.