October 14, 2015
IMF/World Bank Meetings: Was It Different in Lima?
“Macro” issues naturally dominate the talk in these seminars and in the corridors. But not this time. I was surprised to find "micro” development issues suffused the agenda.
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October 14, 2015
Congress Talks MDBs
It was a beautiful, barely-fall Friday in Washington, which made it all the more impressive that twelve members dropped in on a morning House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing on the multilateral development banks (MDBs).
October 13, 2015
New Study of Somali Remittance Flows Does Not Actually Tell Us Much about Somali Remittance Flows
The FAO’s Somalia Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) released an assessment of external remittances to Somalia, based on a survey of both urban and internally-displaced families. The headline result from the report was that apparently remittances were on the decline, but the FSNAU survey doesn’t actually tell us much about how remittance flows to Somalia have changed in the past six months.
October 6, 2015
Can MDBs Help End Poverty? – Podcast with Montek Ahluwalia
The very first Global Goal on the new UN development agenda, formally adopted earlier this month, is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere.” On this week’s CGD podcast, economist Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who also serves as Co-Chair of CGD’s new High Level Panel on the Future of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), shares his experiences of and hopes for combating poverty in India.
October 2, 2015
Private Firms, Development Outcomes, and the Pitfalls of Picking Winners
Bridge International Academies is an innovative education start-up working to provide schooling in some of Kenya's poorest urban areas (and, more recently, Uganda and Nigeria). The company is intensely focused on keeping overheads low, standardising everything from school buildings through lesson plans.
September 29, 2015
Announcing CGD’s High Level Panel on Multilateral Development Banking
At a time of resurgence for multilateral development banks (MDBs), something that few might have predicted just five years ago, the Center for Global Development will convene a high level panel to consider the future of multilateral development banking.
September 1, 2015
An Insider’s Perspective on Delivering a DIB
No one said creating development impact bonds (DIB) was going to be easy, but that hasn’t stopped the development community from trying to get them off the ground. The Fred Hollows Foundation, based in Australia, has been hard at work on a DIB to address cataract blindness in Africa. As the Foundation attracts partners to help fund and implement a pilot of the cataract bond, Dr. Lachlan McDonald, the Foundation’s senior health economist, and Alex Rankin, their Global Lead for Policy, Advocacy & Research, shared some lessons learned so far. With Lachlan and Alex’s permission, we’re turning some of those lessons over to you – we hope they’re useful to others seeking to move ahead with their own DIB.
July 31, 2015
Cash on Delivery … without the Aid?
Over the last five years, our newsletter “Cash on Delivery Aid Update” has begun to cover more than just Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid). So we’ve decided to rename the newsletter, but what shall we call it?
July 23, 2015
How Will We Know If Addis Was a Success?
In 2002, negotiators from the world over met in Mexico to agree on the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development. As Simon Maxwell has pointed out, it is an international document on development cooperation that leads with the most vital financing issues and discusses what is needed to make them work better. And that should stand as a warning to those celebrating the Addis Ababa Action Agenda agreed last week.
July 23, 2015
FFD Update: US Delivers on DRM, Verdict Still Out On Data
The Third Conference on Financing for Development has come and gone; country delegates and their leaders, civil society actors, aid organizations, and policy wonks have all returned home. As we discussed prior to FFD , the United States government had a major opportunity to make commitments on domestic resource mobilization (DRM) and data. So how did the US government fare in these areas?
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