Subscribe
Subscribe today to receive CGD’s latest newsletters and topic updates.
All Commentary
Filters:
Topics
Facet Toggle
Content Type
Facet Toggle
Blog Type
Facet Toggle
Time Frame
Facet Toggle
Blog Post
November 03, 2022
In a new paper, we set out the case for using pull financing to solve problems that affect both development and climate outcomes by incentivising transformational change through technical innovation or massive-scale production and distribution of existing technologies. However, one big question our ...
Blog Post
November 03, 2022
Pull financing is a powerful but underused mechanism for incentivising progress on hard-to-tackle social problems for which innovation or the take up of innovation may be part of the solution. In a new paper, published today, we argue that pull financing can play an important role in the generation ...
Blog Post
October 28, 2022
I begin the links feeling very much like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. The UK has a new Prime Minister… again. And it comes after a week of chaos… again. Boris Johnson spent the weekend lying (yes… again), this time making claims about the number of backers he had like a teenager listing girlfriends...
Blog Post
October 21, 2022
When Liz Truss was elected leader of the Tory party, and thus slid into the empty role of Prime Minister, some friends I have a group chat with took bets on how long she’d last. Two of us, myself included, said she’d be out by December (though the rest all picked dates well before the expected gener...
Blog Post
October 14, 2022
So, I took a couple of months off the from writing the links for the first time since I started them about a decade ago, and what happens? Let’s see: Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, and almost immediately the Queen died and gave the English around 48 hours to explore what peak English looks like (...
Blog Post
August 05, 2022
We’re losing legends at a frankly alarming rate: one week after I lamented the loss of Diana Kennedy, we open by lamenting the loss of Bill Russell. If you’re a basketball fan, Russell is to Jordan and LeBron what Thanos was to Loki: the big bad. We argue about whether LeBron (10 finals, 4 wins) or ...