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  • The Race Against Drug Resistance - Jun 14, 2010

    In an increasingly interconnected world, drug resistance does not stop at a patient’s bedside—it threatens global health. The conclusions of the Center for Global Development’s Drug Resistance Working Group make clear the need for urgent action to address this growing crisis.

  • HIV/AIDS Monitor: Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance? - Apr 6, 2010

    This report examines the use of performance-based funding (PBF) among the big three funders of HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries: the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country...

  • Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences That Work - Apr 1, 2010

    The CGD Working Group on Global Trade Preference Reform shows how changes to trade preference programs could greatly benefit those living in the poorest countires at very little cost to preference-giving countries.

  • A Doing Business Facility: A Proposal for Enhancing Business Climate Reform Assistance - Mar 30, 2010

    Africa remains extremely difficult for entrepreneurs. Donors are increasingly targeting assistance to address the investment-climate constraints that hinder private-sector growth. This report lays out the case for promoting investment climate reforms more strategically, various options for...

  • Partnerships with the Private Sector in Health - Dec 4, 2009

    The Private Sector Advisory Facility Working Group recommends a practical way for donors and technical agencies to support successful public-private interactions to strenghthen health systems in developing countries.

  • MCA Monitor: Round Seven of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to Be Selected for FY2010? - Nov 25, 2009

    The MCA Monitor team explores which countries it thinks the MCC Board will select to be eligible for compact assistance in fiscal year 2010.

  • Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health - Oct 5, 2009

    In a pathbreaking follow-up to the 2008 report Girls Count, Miriam Temin and CGD vice president Ruth Levine shed light on the reality of girls’ health worldwide and its enormous on the wellbeing and productivity of girls, their families, and their nations. Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for...

  • Policy Principles for Expanding Financial Access - Sep 30, 2009

    The CGD Task Force on Access to Financial Services proposes 10 principles for financial-sector policymakers—including national authorities, donors, private-sector participants, international financial institutions, and others—on the facilitation, regulation, and direct provision of...

  • MCA Monitor: Which Countries Jump the FY2010 Corruption Hurdle? A Preview into Round 7 of Millennium Challenge Account Country Selection - Sep 21, 2009

    CGD's MCA Monitor takes a look at which countries pass the control of corruption indicator for fiscal year 2010.

  • MCA Monitor: Burkina Faso Report from the Field - Jul 29, 2009

    Burkina Faso was the first country to sign a threshold program with the MCC and the second nation to transition from a threshold program to compact implementation. In CGD’s latest MCA Monitor Report from the Field, Rebecca Schutte examines the implementation successes and challenges of the...

  • Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data - May 25, 2009

    In this CGD report, the Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research and Policy presents their five recommendations to remedy the lack of good data on migration and its effects on development. The recommendations are politically and technically practical and would allow...

  • UNAIDS: Preparing for the Future - Mar 26, 2009

    This report by the UNAIDS Leadership Transition Working Group argues that the new executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS should focus on a few essential tasks: promoting evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies, ensuring that UN agencies adequately support...

  • Round Six of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to Be Selected for FY2009? - Nov 24, 2008

    The MCA Monitor team presents its predictions for the MCC's selection of countries eligible to apply for funding in 2009. Steve Radelet and Amy Crone take a hard look at the tough choice the MCC has to make, and they offer suggestions to help the MCC to weather a tight budget and political...

  • Which Countries Make the FY2009 Corruption Cut? - MCA Monitor - Oct 2, 2008

    With the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) soon to release the scorecards and performance data that form the basis of the FY09 country selection round, Sheila Herrling and Amy Crone examine how countries fare on the control of corruption indicator, the only “hard hurdle” that countries must...

  • MCA Monitor El Salvador Report from the Field - Sep 3, 2008

    This ninth MCA Monitor Report from the Field is a snapshot-in-time of El Salvador’s program in the early phases of its implementation, during a year in which the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is under pressure to increase and accelerate disbursements, demonstrate tangible impacts, and...

  • New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century - Jun 10, 2008

    New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century calls on the next American president, Congress, policymakers and the American people to overhaul how the U.S. helps poor people in developing countries. Among the recommended steps: a new national foreign assistance strategy and a new...

  • Cracking Down on Rich-World Bribe Payers - Jan 17, 2008

    The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is supposed to prevent U.S. corporations from giving bribes while conducting business abroad--bribes that encourage corruption in poor countries and stymie development. But some corporations use gaping loopholes in the law and its international counterpart,...

  • Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda - Jan 14, 2008

    The wellbeing of adolescent girls in developing countries shapes global economic and social prosperity -- yet girls' needs often are consigned to the margins of development policies and programs. This new report describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and...

  • Joining the Fight Against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement - Dec 10, 2007

    International corporations interested in joining the fight against global poverty can choose from a wide range of options, according to a new CGD report released last week. The report, Joining the Fight Against Global Poverty: A Menu for Corporate Engagement, suggests six approaches for...

  • Round Five Of The MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely To Be Selected For FY2008? - Nov 26, 2007

    On December 12, the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) Board will choose which countries are eligible for FY2008 funding in what may be the toughest selection round to date. With funding tight, new countries passing the performance test, half of the countries with signed compacts failing, and an MCC...

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  • Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid - Mar 16, 2010

    Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.

  • Growing Pains in Latin America: An Economic Growth Framework as Applied to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru - Sep 17, 2009

    Growing Pains in Latin America lays out and applies a new approach to delivering sustainable, inclusive economic growth to the region.

  • Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls - Jun 15, 2009

    Donor spending on global health has surged, yet for many poor people in developing countries even basic prevention and treatment remain elusive. CGD’s newest book, Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls, shows how modest payments in cash or kind can get more health from...

  • Beyond Lending: How Multilateral Banks Can Help Developing Countries Manage Volatility - May 13, 2009

    In this timely new book, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry proposes an innovative risk-management toolkit for multilateral banks to help developing countries become more stable, prosperous, and resilient to external shocks. The book is an important reminder of why the multilaterals must move...

  • Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It - Mar 23, 2009

    What's keeping private business from flourishing in Africa? On the basis of unique enterprise surveys, Vijaya Ramachandran and her co-authors identify poor roads and unreliable power as major physical challenges; ethnic segmentation and the economic predominance ethnic minorities further constrain...

  • The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President - Aug 22, 2008

    The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global...

  • Reinventing Foreign Aid - Jul 31, 2008

    In Reinventing Foreign Aid, CGD non-resident fellow William Easterly has gathered top scholars in the field to discuss how to improve foreign aid. These authors, Easterly points out, are not claiming that their ideas will (to invoke a current slogan) Make Poverty History. Rather, they take on...

  • George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? - May 16, 2008

    In this new CGD book, visiting fellow Carol Lancaster analyzes the dramatic changes in U.S. foreign aid during the Bush administration, including the increased use of aid to address failed states and to fight the global war on terror, the establishment of an entirely new aid agency—the Millennium...

  • Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority - Jan 17, 2008

    In an increasingly globalized world, inequality is an issue of rising concern, especially in Latin America, home to many of the world's most unequal societies. This new book, co-published by the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue, describes the links between recent growth...

  • Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World - Sep 24, 2007

    Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions are still not in school. In Inexcusable Absence, CGD visiting fellows Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed reported the startling new finding that nearly three-quarters of out-of-school girls belong to...

  • Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country - Sep 12, 2007

    While the threat of global warming is increasingly accepted, little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. In this new book, Bill Cline, a joint senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, provides...

  • Greater Than the Sum Of Its Parts? Assessing "Whole of Government" Approaches to Fragile States - Jun 15, 2007

    Experience shows that outside efforts to help reform or reconstruct fragile states must simultaneously address issues of security, governance, and economic growth. Greater than the Sum of Its Parts?, a new book published by the International Peace Academy and written by CGD research fellow Stewart...

  • African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors - Mar 5, 2007

    Bill Easterly calls Moss' new introduction to Africa "compulsively readable and accessible" and "a masterpiece of clear thinking." Each chapter is organized around three fundamental questions: Where are we now? How did we get to this point? What are the current debates? CGD's package of materials...

  • Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment: Policies for Developed and Developing Countries - Jan 12, 2007

    Does foreign direct investment (FDI) channel capital and know-how to developing countries? Or does it bring corruption and abuse of labor standards? Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment shows that FDI's contribution to development can be extremely powerful but that some forms of FDI, especially...

  • Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't In School and What to do About It - Jan 4, 2007

    Girls' education is widely recognized as crucial to development. Yet there has been surprisingly little hardheaded analysis about what is keeping girls out of school, and how to overcome these barriers. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed present new research showing that...

  • Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor - Dec 5, 2006

    Agricultural market liberalization is the linchpin for a successful conclusion to the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations because these are the most protected markets remaining in most rich countries. But the implications for developing countries, especially the poorest, are...

  • Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility - Sep 12, 2006

    This controversial book argues that irresistible demographic forces for greater international labor mobility are being checked by immovable anti-immigration ideas of rich-country citizens. Pritchett proposes breaking the gridlock through policies that support development while also being...

  • Rescuing the World Bank - Sep 5, 2006

    Critics allege that the World Bank is deeply flawed. Yet the world needs a strong World Bank to help manage development and the related global challenges of the 21st century. Do the Bank's shortcomings put its future at risk? If so, can the Bank be rescued? Rescuing the World Bank, a new book that...

  • Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States - May 23, 2006

    This new collection of essays sets an agenda for increased American effectiveness in dealing with failed states to promote economic development and international security. It includes an overview of the poorly understood challenge of weak and failed states and case studies by regional policy...

  • Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization
    in Developing Countries
    - Oct 17, 2005

    Most studies of privatization look at what happens to companies. Reality Check, a new volume of case studies from Latin America, Asia, and the former Soviet Union, examines the impact on people. Surprise: privatization has often been a reasonably good thing, even for the poor. Read a Q&A with lead...

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  • The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development - Jul 1, 2010

    In this essay, Andrew Natsios gives a first-hand account of what he finds most hinders USAID—layers of bureaucracy that misguide and derail development work.

  • Tailored Aid for a Tailored Age? - Jun 24, 2010

    In this short essay, senior fellow David Wheeler compares the world’s foreign assistance architecture to how the rest of the world operates in the digital age. He suggests that multilateral and bilateral transactions from one behemoth to another may be stuck in the past now that technology can...

  • Sustaining and Leveraging AIDS Treatment - Jun 1, 2010

    In the final installation of a three-part series, Mead Over estimates the fiscal burden of international AIDS treatment programs, and suggests ways that donors, governments, and patients can sustain current treatments while preventing future cases.

  • Using Incentives to Prevent HIV Infections - May 24, 2010

    This essay proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of HIV prevention by strengthening incentives for both measurement and achievement. It builds upon a companion essay that proposes an “AIDS Transition”—that is, a gradual reduction in the number of people infected with HIV even as those...

  • The Global AIDS Transition: A Feasible Objective for AIDS Policy - May 17, 2010

    Recognizing the donors’ obligation to sustain financing for the millions of AIDS patient who would not be alive today without it, this essay proposes a dynamic paradigm for the struggle with the AIDS epidemic—“the AIDS transition” —and argues that to most rapidly achieve an AIDS...

  • Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities - Mar 3, 2010

    Paul Romer argues that the principal constraint to raising living standards in this century will come neither from scarce resources nor limited technologies; rather, it will come from our limited capacity to discover and implement new rules. He suggests a new type of development policy: chartering...

  • Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Education Funding - Feb 11, 2010

    In this essay, visiting fellow Desmond Bermingham describes the framework for a better “global education compact” between donor and recipient nations and four possible arrangements to mobilize and allocate development assistance for education. He highlights the advantages and disadvantages of...

  • Global Nutrition Institutions: Is There an Appetite for Change? - Aug 12, 2009

    Undernutrition kills more than three million mothers and children annually, and millions more children suffer irreversible, long-term damage to their bodies and minds. Yet nutrition is too often a low priority for rich-world donors and even for governments in the most affected countries. A new CGD...

  • Development Aid and Its Criticisms: The View from Zambia - Jul 16, 2009

    CGD policy analyst Lindsay Morgan explores the reality of aid-supported development in Zambia from three (very different) perspectives of people working there, in light of Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid. She sheds light on a fundamental paradox of the aid business (huge donor efforts, much good, and...

  • How the Economic Crisis Is Hurting Africa--And What to Do About It - May 8, 2009

    Senior fellow Todd Moss investigates how the aftershocks of the global economic downturn are affecting Africa. African countries that take the right steps to mitigate the pain will be poised to benefit from the eventual recovery; those that don't will be left behind.

  • Dambisa Moyo's (Serious) Challenge to the Development Business - Apr 21, 2009

    Senior fellow Todd Moss considers the future of foreign aid in light of Dambiso Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, which argues that Western aid to Africa has brought more harm than help. The relevant question today, he argues, is not whether aid is good or bad, but rather how aid can be made to work better...

  • Toward Measuring the Impact of the World Food Program's Purchase for Progress Initiative - Dec 12, 2008

    Post-doctoral fellow Jenny C. Aker supports the innovation of the World Food Program's new Purchase-for-Progress initiative but argues that it might not be the panacea that others claim. She questions some of the assumptions of the P4P and cites some potential unintended consequences, especially...

  • How Can We Avoid Another Food Crisis in Niger? (Essay) - Sep 16, 2008

    In this essay, CGD post-doctoral fellow Jenny Aker analyzes the performance of grain markets in Niger during its 2005 food crisis, when an estimated 2.4 million people were affected by severe food shortages, to find ways to avoid future crises. She finds that local grain markets are highly...

  • Guatemala . . . Teetering on the Brink? - Sep 9, 2008

    Visiting fellow Carol Lancaster reflects on how Guatemala has changed since her first visit four decades ago. A larger middle class and formal sector, more NGOs, and more women in professional life: these are among the positive changes. Yet the country is poised to either realize its great...

  • The Right Response in Latin America to Oil and Food Price Pressures: Fight Inflation Now! - Aug 15, 2008

    CGD senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez argues that the recent sharp spike in food and oil prices, above the long term upward trend, threatens Latin America’s stability and is the result of excess global liquidity and the U.S. credit mess. She says the region must fight inflation now and, going...

  • Integration in the Americas: One Idea for Plan B (Essay) - Jun 16, 2008

    In this CGD Essay, visiting fellow Nancy Lee provides the full details and policy recommendations for a strategy of regional investment integration in the Americas. The essay, excerpted from her chapter in the forthcoming White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S....

  • Don't Close the Golden Door: Our Noisy Debate on Immigration and Its Deathly Silence on Development - May 27, 2008

    International migration has long been a central tool in the battle against global poverty and inequality, but the recent heated political debate over immigration reform has largely failed to recognize how migration shapes the development process. In this essay, research fellow Michael Clemens and...

  • Power and Roads for Africa - Mar 31, 2008

    CGD senior fellow Vijaya Ramachandran argues in this essay that the next U.S. president can play a valuable role in helping Africa to overcome two crucial barriers to poverty reduction: lack of power and lack of roads. Ramachandran urges the next president to create a $1 billion Clean Energy Fund...

  • Modernizing Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century: An Agenda for the Next U.S. President - Mar 17, 2008

    Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has vowed a major overhaul of U.S. foreign assistance. He joins a growing list of members of Congress and the defense, diplomacy and development community who recognize that U.S. foreign assistance programs are...

  • Learning While Doing: A 12-Step Program for Policy Change - Feb 19, 2008

    This essay by CGD director of communications and policy Lawrence MacDonald and senior fellow and vice president for programs and operations Ruth Levine describes a variety of approaches and techniques that the Center for Global Development has used to achieve its mission: applying the results of...

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