Over the past 20 years:

• We’ve been constructive critics - challenging the world’s powerful institutions and the status quo for better global health and development practices and holding the international financial institutions accountable for results.

• We’ve changed global conversations, pushing world leaders to do global health and development better, from China’s development debt sustainability to the economics of migration.

• We’ve brought unlikely partners to the same table in pursuit of innovative cross-sectoral solutions to the world’s toughest development challenges, like the creation of Cash on Delivery aid - a partnership between bilateral donors, philanthropists, multilateral development agencies, countries, and communities that pays for results.

• We've been a leader in our field. Over 10 years ago, CGD became the first think tank in the world to adopt an open data policy, requiring scholars to make available the original data and all computer code required to prepare and perform an analysis. A CGD analysis was the first to uncover how much debt is owed by developing countries to China. CGD produced the first study that challenged India’s controversial COVID-19 death data. CGD launched a pioneer survey on gender equity policies and practices of the world’s major development finance institutions. And much more!

And we'll continue to be there - with innovative ideas and independent research - when the world needs it most.

Looking Ahead

Watch our half-day global virtual event below to examine the pressing questions the development community must address in the coming decades.

Over the past two decades the Center for Global Development has maintained an unwavering focus on providing non-partisan evidence and data to inform policies that impact millions of people around the globe. Our independent research has driven major changes in global health and development policy that have helped save lives and livelihoods. Read about the Center for Global Development´s twenty years of ideas, influence, and impact: