On October 11th, CGD's Commitment to Development Index is featured in a Financial Times' article.
From the article:
Help from rich governments to the developing world has marginally improved but is still held back by policies on global warming, migration and security, according to a study by a leading think-tank.
The "commitment to development index", produced by the Washington-based Center for Global Development, said that policies of countries such as the US on the environment and Japan on migration and security had prevented a bigger increase in the help afforded to poor nations.
"The countries that could do the most because of their size are among the least good performers," said David Roodman, research fellow at the CGD. "The environment component of the CDI dramatically exposes the disaster of US environmental policies when compared to other rich countries."
The report's criteria include the size and quality of overseas aid, openness to poor countries' exports, policy regimes that promote good investment in and technology transfer to the developing world, openness to migration, controlling greenhouse gas emissions, keeping peace and security, and combating corruption.