The CGD Podcast

A dozen years since it was set up with a remit to reduce global poverty through economic growth, the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation recently revealed a new Strategic Plan. Deputy CEO Nancy Lee joined me on the CGD Podcast to discuss how the new plan responds to a very differe...

Nicholas Kristof, renowned journalist and columnist for the New York Times, is the winner of two Pulitzer prizes and, along with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, coauthor of the best-selling book Half the Sky. On this week’s podcast, Kristof explains how he came to value the "keyboard an...

It is now possible to talk of a day when the number of new infections will be lower than the number of people dying from AIDS — a day when the disease starts shrinking. Ambassador Deborah Birx, US Global AIDS Coordinator, joins me on this week's podcast to discuss that prospect.

It’s quite the buzz phrase: results-based development. But what is actually meant by "results"? Dr. Raj Shah, former Administrator of USAID under President Obama, and Michael Gerson, former presidential speechwriter and Assistant for Policy and Strategic Planning under George W....