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Oct
26
2017
1:00—2:30 PM
October 10, 2017
In many countries, it is difficult to raise taxes and therefore difficult to increase spending on health care. Nevertheless, many of the factors that determine population health—and how it is distributed among citizens—do not involve spending more on healthcare services, per se. Rather, ...
Dec
6
2016
8:45—1:00 PM
November 20, 2016
In 2006, CGD released a working group report titled “When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives Through Impact Evaluation.” It described an evaluation gap and proposed an international effort to systematically build evidence on “what works” in development with the aim of improving the effectiveness of...
Jun
21
2016
11:30—1:00 PM
June 07, 2016
What should tomorrow’s aid agencies look like in a landscape where the global goal is to ensure sustainable development? In the past, the role of aid has mainly been to “finance” specific projects or services, with a strong sense of donor identity and marked projections of donor in...
Feb
8
2016
11:00—1:00 PM
February 04, 2016
Tobacco kills more people each year than HIV/AIDs, malaria and TB combined. The number of smokers is rising in developing countries and will contribute to 1 billion premature deaths in this century unless countries implement well-known, cost-effective tobacco control policies, including higher tobac...
Feb
9
2016
12:30—2:00 PM
February 03, 2016
Bureaucracies with field operations that cannot be easily supervised and monitored are often caught in two potential sources of dysfunctions: field agents using asymmetric information to their own advantage, and limiting fields agents’ ability to use the same information to improve projects. I...
Mar
20
2015
1:00—2:30 PM
March 09, 2015
With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective? In their new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Dis...
Mar
20
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
March 04, 2015
With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective? In their new paper titled “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountabil...
Sep
8
2014
10:00—11:30 AM
August 28, 2014
Tobacco use is one of the greatest public health challenges facing low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). On average, about half of young men and 10% of young women globally become smokers and relatively few stop over the course of their lives. As a result, annual tobacco deaths will rise from abo...
May
9
2014
9:00—12:00 PM
April 23, 2014
Cash transfer programs have shown mostly consistent success at improving conditions that matter for development; smoothing consumption, increasing school attendance and health care, sometimes improving nutritional status and helping with the accumulation of productive assets, among others. This even...
Jul
17
2013
9:00—5:15 PM
June 26, 2013
The impact evaluation world has changed dramatically through a range of initiatives at research institutions, think tanks, development agencies, and governmental policy units. It has now been seven years since CGD’s Evaluation Gap Working Group released “When Will We Ever Learn? Improvin...