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Blog Post
December 09, 2013
Development is a risky, complex business. So it’s not surprising that development experts sometimes question why private investors would choose to invest in Development Impact Bonds (DIBs), a new model for funding and designing programs that address such seemingly unprofitable proble...
Blog Post
December 04, 2013
President Obama earlier this week made a last minute appeal to donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Offering a US pledge of $1 for every $2 pledged by other donors for a total US pledge of up to $5 billion, the president said, “don’t leave our money on the t...
Blog Post
December 03, 2013
“Too often, donors’ decisions are driven more by our own political interests or our policy preferences than by our partners’ needs.”
These charged words did not come from an energetic NGO arguing for major changes to US development policy. They were delivered ...
Blog Post
December 03, 2013
MCC’s board of directors will meet on December 10 to decide which countries will be eligible for compact and/or threshold program assistance for FY2014. CGD’s Rethink offers a preview of the issues the board will grapple with, as well as a prediction of which countries th...
Blog Post
December 03, 2013
My guest on this week’s Global Prosperity Wonkcast is CGD senior fellow and director of the Rethinking US Development Policy program Ben Leo, here to discuss his new CGD working paper, Is Anyone Listening? in which he examines how well US foreign assistance aligns with the prioritie...