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Blog Post
April 07, 2022
As gender equality has gained increased prominence as an important human rights and global development priority, our teams at CGD and Data2X have seen a proliferation of reports, tools, and indexes that seek to track countries’ progress (or lack thereof) in improving various women’s economic empower...
Blog Post
March 07, 2022
In its new plan to promote gender equality, the EU stated that at least 85 percent of its development projects and programmes should have gender equality and women’s empowerment as a primary objective by 2025. But turning this into a reality will be no small task, given current EU development s...
Blog Post
January 31, 2022
This month marks the one-year anniversary of CGD’s COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative. Through the initiative, my colleagues have produced research, convened dialogues, and developed evidence-based policy proposals, all aimed at contributing to a more inclusive global recovery from the COVID...
Blog Post
January 18, 2022
When the pandemic first struck, dealing with excessive debt and debt service burdens of developing countries figured prominently on the international response agenda. The G20 produced the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI)—a program to defer official debt service due by mostly low-income coun...