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Money Talks: Rethinking Humanitarianism Episode 5
December 09, 2020
In this episode, we dive into how mistrust, monopolies, and perverse incentives are shaping humanitarian response
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The International Finance Facility for Education: The Wrong Answer to the Right Question?
October 22, 2018
Donors are considering a proposal for a new “innovative finance mechanism” to increase funding for education, based on recommendations from Gordon Brown’s Education Commission. We agree that we need to finance an expansion of education in the developing world. But sadly, the Intern...
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A Global Offer to Reduce Deforestation: $5 Billion a Year for 20 Years
June 27, 2018
When it comes to measuring development impacts, nothing beats forests. With ever-improving satellite monitoring technology, measuring global forest cover is each year easier, cheaper, and more accurate. Which means that—whatever you want to call it (pay for performance, results-based aid)...
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Flexible and Innovative Financing for Refugee Crises and Other 21st Century Challenges
April 26, 2018
Last week, CGD co-hosted an event with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) with a simple premise that contradicts much conventional wisdom: refugees are not a burden, but a development asset. That premise compels the question: what policies, financing, and partnerships are needed...
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Envisioning Pay-for-Success: Learning from an Eye Health DIB in Cameroon
January 29, 2018
In 2013, a CGD working group signaled important benefits of development impact bonds, and worked through some of the “how-to” of design and implementation. Yet five years later, only three development impact bonds have launched.
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Structuring and Funding Development Impact Bonds for Health: Nine Lessons from Cameroon and Beyond
January 26, 2018
Despite the considerable interest in Development Impact Bonds, only a few have reached the implementation phase. We use information from stakeholder interviews to describe the design of one DIB in-depth and use lessons from a range of impact bonds to develop recommendations for potential partners to...
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Refugees Are a Boon Not a Burden: Here’s How to Get the Best Results for Everyone
December 18, 2017
We need to stop talking about refugees as if they are burden to be shared. Refugees benefit both economy and the community—and if we invested more and better in giving them a good start, they would be able to make an even bigger contribution. Here we suggest innovative finance mechanisms to...