Commentary

Former White House National Economic Council Director and CGD Board Member Brian Deese has proposed the US launch a Clean Energy Marshall Plan to support zero-carbon infrastructure rollout in developing countries. The idea has attracted significant attention and commentary, some of which has noted t...

In this blog, we summarise WHO’s current financing model and its shortcomings, and note that the Investment Round is more likely to be a success if WHO is able to demonstrate improvements in how it will govern the use of flexible resources and prioritises raising flexible funding over more funding.

At the end of a year-long competition, three teams took the stage last week to pitch their visionary ideas to promote innovation for addressing climate change, pandemics, and public health. Each team was grilled by expert judges in a “Shark Tank for innovation” co-hosted by the Center for Global Dev...

In an effort to drive policy change and support global coordination efforts on the care economy, a new Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy (GRAC) has been developed by Center for Global Development, The Asia Foundation, CIPPEC, Women Deliver, and the International Center for Research on Wo...

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...