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International institutions, development agencies, and the global development community must step up to assist the growing financial and humanitarian crisis. CGD experts advise.
Ahead of COP27, which will take place in Egypt in November 2022, CGD hosted an event that aimed to identify the challenges of mobilizing private finance for climate action in Africa as well as the opportunities and policies needed to overcome them. From the rich discussions, we have summarized a ran...
Blinken’s Nigeria speech was a notable departure from his predecessor’s comments when it came to Africa, signaling that the Biden administration was distancing itself from Trump’s view of Africa. That speech, and the new strategy, recognized the continent’s indispensable role in the provision of glo...
How have the ways in which political parties think about and frame global challenges to the electorate changed over the last three decades, as both the challenges and the political climate have shifted? One way to answer this question is to look at their election manifestos. Though the way in which ...
In the UK’s newly released international development strategy, the government commits to upping bilateral finance to 75 percent of the FCDO’s total aid spend by 2025. Here, we look at what this means for budgets, and for the UK’s international role.
One way to narrow the size of Africa’s infrastructure gap would be to spur the development of new ways of sealing roads that can help bring the cost of roads down. How can we do that? With an advance market commitment.
This blog briefly reviews various projections for economic development to 2050 and takes a closer look at arguably the most authoritative assessment of what the longer-term future might hold for development, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), produced for the IPCC.