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Back into Africa?
Todd Moss argues that the Obama administration has neglected Africa for the past four years and offers a roadmap for reengagement in the four years ahead, regardless of who wins next week’s election. Image: Dharapak / AP
Read Full StoryThe Global Fund Forum
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is set to name a new director even as it radically reshapes its funding model to generate more health bang for the buck. Amanda Glassman has invited eight experts to offer their advice.
Read Full StoryThe Kids Can’t Read
Progress on universal primary schooling notwithstanding, new evidence shows that hundreds of millions of kids finish school unable to read, write, or do simple math, according to a new CGD policy paper by Amanda Beatty and Lant Pritchett.
Read Full StoryClimate Adaptation Finance
If the world could mobilize the billions needed to help poor people cope with climate impacts, how would it be best allocated? Michele de Nevers shares highlights of a CGD roundtable on climate vulnerability. Image: AP
Read Full StoryDevelopment Impact Bonds
A working group convened by CGD and Social Finance is designing a new vehicle for investors who want to do good and do well. Co-chairs Elizabeth Littlefield, head of the US agency OPIC, and Toby Eccles of Social Finance, a UK organization, explain.
Read Full StoryIdentity and Development
Is it possible to identify every human on earth? In a new Wonkcast, Alan Gelb and Julia Clark tell how biometrics could make this possible and why it’s (mostly) a good thing.
Read Full StoryPAHO Progress on Health Priority Setting
The Pan American Health Organization is strengthening a network to determine which health interventions are more cost effective. The move addresses needs identified in a CGD working group report. Image: Curt Carnemark / World Bank
Read Full StoryRoom for Improvement
The United States and other rich countries have a long way to go in improving policies to support shared global prosperity. The 2012 Commitment to Development Index ranks the rich.
Read Full StoryTime to Invest in … Pakistan?
USAID has launched a Pakistan Private Investment Initiative to expand access to capital for Pakistan’s small and medium enterprises via SME-focused private equity funds. Alexis Sowa welcomes the move but wonders: where’s OPIC? Image: Kaukab Jhumra Smith / USAID
Read Full StoryPost-2015: Zero Is the Comely-est Number
Charles Kenny opines on HiPoPoDomAe, the UNGA Games, and what should come after the Millennium Development Goals. Reading about the MDGs has rarely offered such serious fun.
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