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Blog Post
December 13, 2024
The broader use of safety nets—not just in response to or anticipating a crisis—can help mitigate the impacts of crises. Specifically, pre-existing safety nets have the potential to offset the effects of natural disasters and pandemics by serving as a tested conduit for rolling out aid in a reliable...
WORKING PAPERS
December 10, 2024
We study how marriage market considerations influence parental investments in daughters’ education in Pakistan. Using a hypothetical choice methodology, we estimate parents’ preferences and willingness-to-pay for marital customs and daughters’ marital and post-marital outcomes. Our findings highligh...
Blog Post
December 10, 2024
In many low- and middle-income countries, women often don’t participate in the formal labor force. In these settings, the labor market returns to schooling are unlikely to be salient for parents making schooling choices for their children. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in these same settings, girls face ...
Blog Post
October 17, 2024
CGD's Eeshani Kandpal speaks with Twaweza founder Rakesh Rajani and the World Bank's Halsey Rogers about how Twaweza's learning assessments influenced the 2018 World Development Report on education. Together they shed light on how partnerships between international actors and local institutions can ...
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2024
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Washington, DC
12:00—2:00 PM EDT | 5:00—7:00 PM BST
October 03, 2024
Join CGD for an event alongside the Annual Meetings to explore key questions including: What barriers prevent women from ascending to higher leadership roles? And how can we ensure transparency and accountability at the IFIs as the push toward internal gender equity continues? The dialogue will also...
Oct
10
2024
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Washington, DC
9:30—11:00 AM EDT | 2:30—4:00 PM BST
September 17, 2024
Join the Center for Global Development and USAID to celebrate these strides in cost-effective programming and to launch USAID’s first-ever Position Paper on Cost-Effectiveness and Position Paper on Direct Monetary Transfers, two new Agency policy documents. USAID Deputy Administrator for Policy and ...
WORKING PAPERS
August 29, 2024
Quantifying how small and routine income changes affect food demand in low- and middle-income countries can inform the policy discourse on poverty reduction, nutrition, and social protection, as well as the debate on the impact of economic growth on global carbon emission patterns.
Blog Post
August 29, 2024
When given additional income, how much do the poor choose to spend on food? This deceivingly simple question is surprisingly difficult to answer and has preoccupied many generations of economists. For starters, do observed correlations between income and food demand truly capture the effect of incom...
Blog Post
July 25, 2024
For the past 35 years, the World Bank has hosted the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, or ABCDE, showcasing internal and external research relevant to the Bank’s mission of a world free of poverty. This year, on July 9 and 10, CGD co-hosted the conference together with the World Bank.
Blog Post
June 25, 2024
In earlier CGD work, we argued that the Bank should use evidence, on a more routine basis, from a range of sources—impact and process evaluations, as well as quantitative assessments and implementation studies—to inform its lending. To be successful, the Knowledge Compact must be developed and embed...