Commentary

In many low- and middle-income countries, women often don’t participate in the formal labor force. In these settings, the labor market returns to schooling are unlikely to be salient for parents making schooling choices for their children. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in these same settings, girls face ...

In a world of limited resources and rising health care demand, decision-makers are permanently urged to make explicit, evidence-based decisions about which services or health technologies to fund, for whom, and how much to pay for them. Health technology assessment (HTA) plays a critical role in thi...

Sorry if the links are a little late getting to you today: I’ve just been decorating the Christmas tree with the little one. The tree is massive: it did not look nearly so big when we selected it, surrounded by many other even bigger trees and what I can only assume were strategically-hired giants w...

On June 3–4, 2025, the Center for Global Development is pleased to announce its inaugural Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure—a new forum to convene researchers, policymakers, and implementers, all working to stamp out global lead poisoning.

Developing economies do not allocate sufficient domestic resources to health, and a cumbersome donor architecture undermines external financing. A multipronged approach that prioritizes strengthening country health systems and integrates global initiatives into national strategies could have a lasti...

One of the things that makes development assistance less effective than it might be is fragmentation: many donors providing small amount of assistance to a country, each mission head demanding their photo with a minister, many demanding different reports and procedures and providing overlapping or c...

ODA has increased more quickly but six providers are spending at least a third of their ODA domestically. Refugee hosting costs are the main driver. We argue that ODA has become polluted with items of limited relevance to developing countries welfare; and urge the parties to consider proposals that ...