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Blog Post
February 06, 2025
The White House issued a press release three days ago apparently designed to justify the ongoing stop-work orders at USAID, alongside pulling agency staff out of the field and locking them out of their offices. I’d argue the release demonstrates precisely why these moves are a mistake. The press rel...
Blog Post
January 09, 2025
This is the fourth in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda over the past four years. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on pillar 4 of its global development agenda, to "Promote Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance and Address Fragilit...
Blog Post
November 20, 2024
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group has just issued a report on the Bank’s mechanisms for supporting procurement. This blog focuses on the findings and the evidence-based recommendations that can both increase development impact and help foster demand for services through greater ease of d...
Blog Post
September 23, 2024
The British government is looking for ways to end the country's notoriety as a haven for dirty money. In the lead up to this year's general election, now Foreign Secretary David Lammy promised that the Labour Government would take illicit finance more seriously, announcing a list of potential policy...
Blog Post
April 11, 2024
There are currently two prevailing methodologies for calculating PCM—the MDB approach and the OECD approach. Both approaches have developed over time and contributed significantly to better understanding of the ways in which private capital is mobilised for development. However, they have key defici...
Blog Post
March 29, 2024
The US foreign assistance data for FY 2022 is nearly complete, except for some missing Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and Transportation data, and the data reveals some interesting trends. First, FY 2022 did not break the historical record of total obligations, but it came closer than any...
Blog Post
March 22, 2024
On Thursday, I delivered testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs at a hearing titled “Accountable Assistance: Reviewing Controls to Prevent Mismanagement of Foreign Aid.” I argued that the financial flow of assistanc...
TESTIMONY
March 21, 2024
On Thursday, March 21, 2024, CGD Senior Fellow Charles Kenny appeared before the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability at a hearing titled “Accountable Assistance: Reviewing Controls to Prevent Mismanagement of Forei...
Blog Post
March 19, 2024
oughly, six percent of health allocations are estimated to be siphoned away through corruption. Health systems are particularly vulnerable to corruption because of the complex nature of the provision of health care, information asymmetries and financial fragmentation. To advance progress toward UHC,...
WORKING PAPERS
February 23, 2024
As the politics of polarization gain traction and electoral support, a new vintage of populism is emerging in Latin America. This new version shares some aspects with the type of cultural populism now common in advanced economies that divides societies into antagonistic camps. But there are also imp...