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BRIEFS
March 01, 2025
This brief sets out options for the UK's Treasury in the use of the aid budget for meeting refugee-related costs.
The current approach is deeply problematic. It fails to deliver accounting officer responsibility for value for money, having contributed to significant unnecessary expenditure on refu...
POLICY PAPERS
February 12, 2025
Planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities is increasingly necessary as climate shocks become more frequent and intense. It is also becoming more feasible as modelling of future scenarios improves and adaptation limits become clearer. Still, many governments are underprepared for planning ...
Blog Post
February 12, 2025
As climate change accelerates and weather variability grows, life in hazard-exposed areas will become progressively harder. States have two policy alternatives to in situ misery or distress migration: in situ adaptation, helping people remain where they are, or planned relocation from danger, where ...
Blog Post
February 05, 2025
Mexico and Canada have been on the frontline of the new global (dis)order, making their response a potential case study for how economies that are smaller and somewhat dependent on America navigate pressure from the US in this new era of economic coercion. After the 180 degrees reversal on the tarif...
CGD NOTES
January 24, 2025
Internal displacement—that is the forced movement of people within the country they live in—is at crisis levels. There were 46.9 million internal displacements, or movements, recorded during 2023, across 151 countries. While some of these movements were a result of preemptive evacuation ahead of a d...
Blog Post
January 21, 2025
This is the fifth and final 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 humanitarian response and offers an assessment of how the new Trump administration could affect Biden’s le...
Blog Post
January 16, 2025
In many countries new asylum seekers are not allowed to work for a certain period of time after arriving. The UK has one of the longest such periods: 12 months. Many claim that letting asylum seekers work sooner would act as a “pull factor”, increasing the number of refugees arriving. But that is an...
Blog Post
November 20, 2024
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.
