About the Project
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The Center for Global Development has compiled the Commitment to Development Index every year since 2003. It was published in Foreign Policy through 2006. Mapping Worlds made the animated maps. CGD staff members and outside collaborators designed and collect data for the seven individual components. David Roodman is the chief architect of the Commitment to Development Index. Roodman also designed the aid component, revised the trade component, building on the work of CGD Senior Fellow William Cline, and drafted the original environment component. Cindy Prieto, Program Coordinator, CGD, helped administer the project.
The collaborators have been:
The work of all these authors is available at Inside the Index.
The Center for Global Development is solely responsible for the published design of the CDI.
FundingThe Rockefeller Foundation has supported the CDI from the start. In late 2005, 11 national foreign assistance agencies launched the CDI Consortium. The Consortium provides additional support, and strengthens the project’s relationship with one of the CDI’s key audiences. Its current membership: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. |