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Blog Post
May 09, 2025
There are more than 450 AI applications targeting health or education outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, but not every application will prove cost-effective. How can the development sector make smart bets when we don’t yet have a conclusive evidence base on what interventions work?
Blog Post
May 07, 2025
The Trump administration unveiled an overview of its FY2026 budget request on Friday. While short on details, the document offers a grim forecast for US development and humanitarian spending. In seeking deep cuts across a host of program accounts and pledging to align with American interests, it is ...
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May 07, 2025
Following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interventions during the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings and the White House submission of the “skinny” budget to Congress last week, we now have some clarity around the Trump administration’s policy agenda for the international financial institutions ...
Blog Post
May 07, 2025
As rates of conflict and fragility rise across West Africa and the Sahel, aid flows from the largest donors, including France and the US, decline. These reductions threaten to eliminate life-saving health and food assistance programs, worsening already dire social and humanitarian conditions, partic...
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May 02, 2025
It was disheartening to learn last week that DOGE was moving to shut down the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). I’ve found myself struggling to make sense of this move in light of a particular consequence of this effort to shutter the agency—handing the People’s Republic of China a win in Nepa...
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