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CGD in the News
March 27, 2017
The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to slash contributions to the United Nations by hundreds of millions of dollars — pulling out a whopping billion dollars from U.N. peacekeeping alone. That $54 billion in added defense spending has to come from somewhere, and the U.N. has long bee...
CGD in the News
March 02, 2017
Implying foreign aid is bloated creates a fake problem that Trump can then claim to solve, Charles Kenny, author of “Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding,” told me. “You can’t balance the budget on the back of the State Department and USAID.” Scott Morri...
CGD in the News
February 07, 2017
Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, noted that with the Mexico City Policy in place, foreign NGOs are forced to choose between private and European donors, who require full access to reproductive care that includes abortion, and American aid. This cuts the overall re...