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The Trump administration’s directives to freeze most of US foreign assistance and dismantle USAID have hit the international development ecosystem hard. For people working on issues related to gender equality and inclusion, the administration’s actions have hit even harder. Along with pausing aid an...

For the past two years, I’ve been part of an incredible interdisciplinary team—spanning economics, sociology, demography, and public health—working on a National Academies (NASEM) consensus study on women’s empowerment and socioeconomic development. The new report builds on NASEM’s influential 1986 ...

CGD's Kehinde Ajayi speaks with UNICEF's Ruth Graham-Goulder and CGAP's Rani Deshpande about the importance of including adolescent girls' perspectives to inform policy, of working across sectors to provide multi-issue solutions, and of developing financial and economic interventions that reflect ad...

Childcare and early childhood development (ECD) are essential drivers of gender equity and economic resilience, yet they remain critically underfunded in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our new CGD policy paper Childcare and Early Childhood Development Expenditures in Africa: Comparat...

The broader use of safety nets—not just in response to or anticipating a crisis—can help mitigate the impacts of crises. Specifically, pre-existing safety nets have the potential to offset the effects of natural disasters and pandemics by serving as a tested conduit for rolling out aid in a reliable...

In many low- and middle-income countries, women often don’t participate in the formal labor force. In these settings, the labor market returns to schooling are unlikely to be salient for parents making schooling choices for their children. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in these same settings, girls face ...

Last week, the World Bank released a draft of the IDA21 replenishment report for comment by external stakeholders. Six of CGD's senior researchers dissected the draft report and the most recent iteration of the policy package on the issues we follow most closely. Here are our reactions.