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Blog Post
June 14, 2024
The Silence of the Links last week came during one of CGDs ‘summer Fridays’, a day off we’re entitled to every other Friday during the ‘summer’ (a phrase for which scare quotes are required in the UK, as this year’s summer has been by turns arctic and monsoonish). While I love writing the links, a d...
Blog Post
June 14, 2024
For the last four years, CGD has been involved in a range of activities in a bid to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), both internally and externally. This blog outlines some of these activities, what we at CGD have been learning, and what our plans are going forward. We would love inpu...
Blog Post
June 13, 2024
The WBG thus deserves recognition for the progress it has made towards rewarding men and women equally and for not penalizing motherhood, at least in terms of compensation as analyzed in Das and Joubert. This is in sharp contrast to a growing literature that finds that much of the gender wage-gap no...
Blog Post
June 05, 2024
No decision by aid donors this year is more important than how much they pledge to the IDA replenishment negotiations. IDA, the World Bank’s lending window for the poorest countries, is the single largest multilateral source of grants and concessional finance to poor countries for both development a...
CGD NOTES
June 05, 2024
This paper reviews PSW performance and, based on our findings, offers recommendations to strengthen performance going forward. Our review is based on key indicators of success, including usage rates (commitments and disbursements), whether PSW investments have helped spur higher levels of IFC and MI...
Blog Post
June 03, 2024
As the largest international source of education financing, the World Bank funds a wide range of activities, from school construction to international assessments. Specifically, 602 education projects approved between 1998 and 2017 have financed 139 different types of activities, as per the Bank's i...
Blog Post
May 31, 2024
Well, that was an eventful week. We’re one week into the UK General Election campaign, which has so far been conducted with all the dignity of a Rooney family wedding. We’ve had internecine fighting, a spate of retirements, MPs mocking their own policy platforms and what can only be described as a s...
Blog Post
May 28, 2024
Over the last 10 years, the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) has supported countries across Africa and Asia to develop national priority-setting processes. This month, in partnership with 15 iDSI authors, we have published a review of the successes, challenges, and lessons learned du...