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Blog Post
September 13, 2023
For 20 years, the Commitment to Development Index has assessed countries' policies and the level of effort they go to in order to contribute to international development. Because development depends on much more than foreign aid, the Index looks at countries’ performance across eight different polic...
Blog Post
September 13, 2023
The CDI aims to provide comparable information to policymakers on how their countries’ policies can accelerate development. It provides a comparable quantitative measure of effort in policies that support or inhibit development, especially in areas beyond "aid." This methodology of the CDI should en...
Blog Post
September 14, 2021
Today, we publish the 2021 Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which tracks powerful countries’ policy efforts on development across eight important areas, from development finance to migration. One of the CDI’s focal areas is the environment, which matters for everyone but is especially critical...
Blog Post
July 19, 2010
Postings to this blog are closed. But efforts to modernize the Bretton Woods institutions to better meet the challenges of the 21st century continue, here at the Center for Global Development, within the institutions themselves, and in the international development community more broadly. I invite y...
Blog Post
May 07, 2009
With a little distance from the hype of the two important global events of April—the G-20 London Summit and the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank—it is perhaps easier to judge how effective these jamborees have been in addressing the key challenges of the current financial and economic crisi...