It’s clear that development agencies will be faced with hard choices in the years to come. CGD’s 2022 Development Leaders Conference will bring together senior policymakers from official bilateral and multilateral development agencies and institutions to explore the way forward for development, dur...

The Dutch government has published a new policy memorandum on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. According to Liesje Schreinemacher, the Minister in charge of this portfolio, a lot of what the Dutch government are doing in this space “works very well”. Though the evidence shows that some of ...

On the 10th and 24th of April, the French will elect a new president. In a campaign largely overshadowed by the invasion of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron is ahead in the polls and looks set to secure a second five-year term.

With a full-scale war on its borders, the EU will be hard pressed not to continue to give priority to Ukraine. But does this mean a tilt in the EU’s development and humanitarian aid spending towards Europe, and away from other countries and regions is inevitable?

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is rebuffing questions about whether an application from Ukraine for “immediate membership” of the EU will be granted as the Russian invasion intensifies.

In its new plan to promote gender equality, the EU stated that at least 85 percent of its development projects and programmes should have gender equality and women’s empowerment as a primary objective by 2025. But turning this into a reality will be no small task, given current EU dev...