Towards an Aid Quality Index (IRIN)

UN news service IRIN cited CGD research fellow David Roodman on the Commitment to Development Index.

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"The whole idea is that because the amount is so large, you won't have to use it," said Liliana Rojas-Suarez, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a former deputy chief of the IMF's capital markets division. "The whole discussion before the crisis was 'who cares about the IMF? They are so small, the private sector is so large, they cannot do anything.' "

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