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Blog Post
February 06, 2025
The White House issued a press release three days ago apparently designed to justify the ongoing stop-work orders at USAID, alongside pulling agency staff out of the field and locking them out of their offices. I’d argue the release demonstrates precisely why these moves are a mistake. The press rel...
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February 05, 2025
Dear Secretary Rubio: There have been few more eloquent advocates for foreign assistance than you. And I believe the case you make for US aid is backed up by considerable empirical evidence. As you have said, “millions of human beings are alive today because [of] the United States, and others in the...
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February 04, 2025
It is urgent to restore operation of America’s life-saving assistance programs, halted under the ongoing 90-day pause of all foreign assistance. Two examples: First, PEPFAR is currently providing lifesaving HIV treatment for 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children. When people come off HIV m...
Blog Post
December 17, 2024
Last week, the UN Foundation and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs kindly asked me to talk at an informal session on the coherence between development and climate finance. I learned a lot, and it helped me understand a little better the various positions on the issue, but I (still) ca...
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December 03, 2024
One of the things that makes development assistance less effective than it might be is fragmentation: many donors providing small amount of assistance to a country, each mission head demanding their photo with a minister, many demanding different reports and procedures and providing overlapping or c...
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November 22, 2024
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...
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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.
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November 20, 2024
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group has just issued a report on the Bank’s mechanisms for supporting procurement. This blog focuses on the findings and the evidence-based recommendations that can both increase development impact and help foster demand for services through greater ease of d...