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For too long disasters have been considered unexpected and unforeseeable. A force majeure on a country’s development and fiscal planning. This has led to governments largely taking a reactive approach to financing the response, recovery, and reconstruction from disasters. However, the data and scien...

Three weeks ago, I was in Montreal for a very interesting meeting on the future of Canadian foreign assistance, hosted by Global Canada and CanWaCH, the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health. I’m grateful to them for inviting me, even though it was a somewhat depressing discussion. Pa...

CGD's Rachael Calleja speaks with Santiago Quiñones Cardenas of APC Colombia, a member of the Re-thinking Development Cooperation Working Group, about the value of multidirectional learning, the importance of creating inclusive spaces for engagement, and Santiago's advice for successful triangular c...

In the lush mountains of Simandou in southeast Guinea sit some of the world’s richest untapped reserves of iron ore. After decades of negotiations, a convention signed in April this year opened the door to mining the deposits. The mega project will test the government’s ability to be innovative, agi...

Following the UK general election, CGD's Ranil Dissanayake speaks with Stefan Dercon from the Blavatnik School of Government (and CGD) and Laura Chappell from the Institute for Public Policy Research about the unique challenges presented by today's development landscape, the key drivers of economic ...

2024 is the year of the democratic “supercycle”: elections covering 4 billion people in over 70 countries are being held. Several major aid-giving countries already have or are expected to move toward the right of the political spectrum. What consequences for aid and development will that have?

The results of the recent French legislative elections signal that significant changes to the nation’s politics could be on their way. But the nature and timing of these changes remain uncertain. France’s global development policy, reaffirmed by the 2021 law on inclusive development and fight agains...