The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) provides impactful support to the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the world. The 75 economies currently eligible for low-interest loans and grants from IDA account for just under one-quarter of the global population but over 70 percent of the world’s extreme poor and only 3 percent of global output. They faced significant challenges long before the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet they had made notable progress on several key d