Molly Kinder is fairly certain that she holds the CGD record for repeat hires: four different CGD stints, spanning more than a dozen years and working for some of the legends of CGD’s past and present. She first joined CGD in January 2003 as a program assistant working for Ruth Levine in the n...

It is UNGA season here in New York City, which spells the annual arrival of scores of world leaders, snarled traffic, and headline-grabbing announcements from the international development community. 

Fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town has prompted an anxious reassessment of all facets of the complex, troubled alliance between the United States and Pakistan. A new report from CGD’s Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan shines light on a crucial...

President Nancy Birdsall and senior policy analyst Molly Kinder were featured in a IPS article about CGD's report on aid to Pakistan.

CGD president Nancy Birdsall's article about U.S. aid to Pakistan was featured in Foreign Policy's AFPAK Channel.

This is a joint post with Wren Elhai and Molly Kinder and first appeared on ForeignPolicy.com’s AfPak Channel blog. Read the report of the Study Group on U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan here. A response from Alexander Thier, head of USAID’s Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs can b...

WASHINGTON, D.C.(June 1, 2011)-U.S. and Pakistani development experts are urging a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligen...