The CGD Podcast

We Need ‘Far Fewer’ SDGs Says Leading Development Thinker John Norris

Poverty reduction through economic growth: that is the guiding principle of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and one it has adhered to through its first decade of operations. I sat down with MCC CEO Dana Hyde to reflect on the MCC’s first ten years and get her outlook on its next ten...

For Anne-Marie Slaughter, architect of the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, what was most pleasing about the second one, released last week, was that there was a second one. ‘It’s hard to have a quadrennial review if it’s only one,’ she told me in...

Is better good enough? When it comes to climate change, Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute, says probably not.