Commentary

If Banga’s $100 billion total replenishment target is met by making IDA more expensive, the champagne should remain corked. Far better for the World Bank’s president to declare that donors have failed the institution and the world’s poorest countries than to try to engineer a trainwreck to look like...

The Companies Act (2013) implemented in 2015 marked a turning point for the presence of women directors in corporate India. In just a year after the Act was implemented, the percentage of listed firms without women on boards dropped from 53 percent to under 10 percent, highlighting the policy's imme...

This spring, while watching children in rural Zambia excitedly cluster in groups on their classroom floor to chalk out different strategies to solve three-digit multiplication problems, I thought about the journey that had brought an innovative method of teaching (Teaching at the Right Level or TaRL...

The Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), China’s triennial conference with Africa, has been the primary mechanism for bilateral engagement across economics, health, peace and security, education, and culture since its inaugural session in 2000. While the size of the package announced at last w...

In the final episode of Lagos to Mombasa, Gyude reflects on some major topics and takeaways from the past three years and calls for better climate mitigation and adaptation measures for Africa.

In an era marked by unprecedented global challenges, from climate change to geopolitical tensions, the landscape of global health financing is at a pivotal juncture. In response to the growing recognition of the need for more equitable and effective global health systems, CGD analysts have proposed ...

Last year, myself and colleagues outlined a proposal for a “New Compact” to reform financing of health services in aid-recipient countries; a response to the extraordinarily complex and, at times, overreaching architecture for health aid. Multilateralism can be a powerful force for positive impact a...