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As stakeholders gather for this year's Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, CGD is hosting important discussions with leading global development experts, policymakers, representatives from international finance institutions, and more.

This trade agenda could result in lasting harm to the world’s poorest countries while providing no discernible benefit to the US. Here's a more practical and effective approach.

There remains a lot of uncertainty regarding the status (and legality) of USAID award and staff terminations to date, and even more around the administration’s reorganization plans. But assume things work out as the administration hopes: USAID staff are all fired and the agency is shut down by the e...

In a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign aid policy, the Trump administration eliminated approximately 83 percent of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s programs, with 37 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) particularly affected. According to a recent CGD blog, these countries are consid...

Next week’s IMF–World Bank Spring Meetings will be one of the more unsettled in recent memory, with an escalating trade war, a shaky global outlook, shrinking aid budgets, and a US administration resetting its global posture. Read reactions from CGD's expert on what they're paying particular attenti...

With donor priorities shifting and global crises competing for attention, the future of development aid—particularly for social sectors like education—has rarely been more uncertain. Given the dramatic reductions in US aid and impending cuts by other donors such as the UK, low- and middle-income cou...

There's a common concern that AI systems are black boxes prone to unexpected behavior, from Google recommending users eat rocks to Sora’s AI videos depicting gymnasts sprouting extra limbs. While some of these examples may seem benign, organizations using AI for development are rightly concerned abo...

This panel brings together policy and tech leaders from emerging economies to discuss their visions and objectives for AI integration within their national strategies and societies.

In an earlier blog post, we argued that rationalizing tax expenditures (TEs)—comprising exemptions, deductions, and reduced rates providing preferential tax treatments for specific groups of individuals, regions, or sectors—is critical to enhancing the capacity of low- and low-middle income countri...

Medical doctors regularly warn their patients about unhealthy foods and behaviors. But who is going to warn the public about unhealthy public policies and government spending? The quick answer is that other doctors (the kind with PhDs not MDs), along with qualified policy analysts of all kinds, can...