This week, in the margins of the Education World Forum, a new ministerial taskforce on ending violence in, around and through schools was launched, led by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and Sierra Leone, at an event supported by CGD and the Global Partnership for Education...

Last week, thousands from across the UK’s energy industry met in Glasgow for the All-Energy UK Conference. CGD research linking training and migration for the green transition has shown the need to break down the silos between skills, employer needs, climate policy, migration policy, and industry. ...

CGD's Sanjeev Gupta and Benedict Clements of Universidad de Las Américas discuss the considerations that influence the design of sound monetary and fiscal policies, the role of income taxes, and the kinds of reforms that can bring equity to both emerging and advanced economies.

Last year, the United Nations General Assembly in New York unanimously agreed to a political declaration on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which included a commitment to establish an Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against AMR. The UN, in turn, tasked the Quadripartite—the World Health Org...

Despite what administration officials have claimed about preserving life-saving work, many of the programs delivering interventions known to save the most lives per dollar spent have not received the funding promised in their agreements and contracts. Among the many efforts needed to mitigate this h...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered development interventions are growing, with over 100 global health and 150 education AI projects delivering direct services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While most such projects are currently pilots, governments may eventually look to scale effect...

In August last year, I made a modest proposal to China’s Minister of Finance regarding IDA, the soft lending arm of the World Bank that works with the poorest countries. I suggested China might want to become an equal IDA shareholder to the US. While Beijing did increase its contribution in the sub...