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POLICY PAPERS
October 28, 2024
The movement for localization in foreign aid presents philosophical and practical challenges for providers of foreign aid. In the past, some level of localization (to at least state actors) of both decision-making and spending could be achieved through general and sector budget support, a logistical...
Blog Post
October 14, 2024
In this note we estimate what refugee costs might come to in 2024, and consider ways to reduce costs. We find that if the government continues to spend and report the same amount of ODA per asylum seeker and refugee as in 2023, then total refugee-related costs will remain high, at around £3.6 billio...
BOOKS
October 03, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development offers an insider’s view into the successes, struggles, and lessons of a unique government department. As leaders worldwide consider the future of international development, the book provides critical insights into the institutional s...
Blog Post
September 25, 2024
In 2023, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries recorded a huge $29 billion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent on hosting refugees and asylum seekers within their own borders. Here, we put forward new analysis, showing that the cost each country reports per person ar...
Blog Post
August 29, 2024
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 ...
Blog Post
July 24, 2024
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?
Blog Post
July 16, 2024
Nutrition financing and its data are complex due to the diverse interventions for nutrition across sectors and stakeholders, with both direct and indirect benefits.
In this piece, we walk through what we’ve learned in navigating the basics of nutrition financing from three key sources—the Institut...
Blog Post
July 09, 2024
In this blog, we highlight three areas for newly appointed Development Minister Anneliese Dodds and Foreign Secretary David Lammy to focus on. In particular, we set out first how to implement their commitment to multilateralism before identifying necessary fixes to the budget, but also to capability...
