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Blog Post
September 13, 2023
The CDI aims to provide comparable information to policymakers on how their countries’ policies can accelerate development. It provides a comparable quantitative measure of effort in policies that support or inhibit development, especially in areas beyond "aid." This methodology of the CDI should en...
Blog Post
September 13, 2023
The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 40 of the world’s most powerful countries on policies that affect more than five billion people living in poorer nations. The focus of the index is on development “spillovers,” or policies that affect the development prospects of countries beyond one’s...
Op-Ed
December 27, 2021
There was a lot of hope at the start of 2021: COVID-19 vaccines had just arrived, an end to the pandemic seemed on the horizon, and a fresh start for the global economy was ahead. By now, it feels like much of January’s optimism was as inflated as today’s prices. But in the spirit of starting the ne...
Blog Post
December 22, 2021
In the fifth installment of the Future of Development series, which brings together experts to discuss the big questions facing developing countries over the next decade, Leonard Wantchekon and Sarah Khan took on the role of politics in development (and vice versa), exploring how political distortio...