Commentary

In 1948, Congress overwhelmingly passed what would become known as the Marshall Plan. That act appropriated $13.3 billion over 1948-51 for Europe’s recovery, equivalent to about $150 billion today. It was proposed by a former general, not an economist or a politician, a man who understood well what ...

A viral claim, spread and amplified by Elon Musk, suggests that only 10 percent of USAID money reaches its intended beneficiaries. This is a wildly incorrect and misleading interpretation of a different statistic—that 10 percent of USAID payments are made directly to organizations in the developing ...

The Trump administration’s stop-work order highlights precisely why we need a new model for health aid—one in which domestic financing supports the highest priority, core health services. On 20 January, the US State Department ordered an immediate pause on (nearly) all foreign aid spending. The “sto...

Four areas with potential for some common ground, and hopefully the basis for better and more constructive conversations, when it comes to the migration debate in the US.

US assistance has been at the forefront of the global fight against famine and pestilence worldwide. Any delay or disruption of that support will have an immense cost.

In grocery stores across the US, shoppers buying eggs face soaring prices—or empty shelves—amid an outbreak of bird flu, caused by the H5N1 virus. Beyond America’s borders, Uganda just confirmed a case of Ebola in its capital Kampala; neighboring Tanzania is facing a Marburg virus outbreak; and the ...

CGD's Kehinde Ajayi speaks with UNICEF's Ruth Graham-Goulder and CGAP's Rani Deshpande about the importance of including adolescent girls' perspectives to inform policy, of working across sectors to provide multi-issue solutions, and of developing financial and economic interventions that reflect ad...