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CGD NOTES
March 24, 2025
After the decision of the Venezuelan regime to disregard the results of the presidential election of July 28, 2024, and subsequently swear in Maduro for a new term on January 10, 2025, the international community faces a new reality. The Venezuelan people, essentially, have tried every single tool i...
WORKING PAPERS
March 18, 2025
This paper tests the hypothesis that the growing proportion of World Bank contracts granted to Chinese firms, particularly in the infrastructure sector, may undermine results by exposing projects to lower standards of work. We find that such concerns are unfounded. We create a dataset of World Bank ...
CGD NOTES
March 17, 2025
At the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC-9) in September 2024, China reaffirmed its position as Africa’s largest bilateral creditor. President Xi announced a resource package of just over $50 billion, $10 billion more than the 2021 proclamation. It came as a palpable relief to the Afric...
CGD NOTES
March 06, 2025
The dramatic and unexpected cessation of US foreign aid could change the trajectory of development assistance for years to come. The sudden stop in funding is reverberating globally, destabilizing the aid community and cutting off access to hundreds of lifesaving programs affecting millions of peopl...
CGD NOTES
March 05, 2025
It's been repeated time and again: The US trade deficit stems from a persistent savings-investment gap. Without closing that gap, the deficit won’t shrink. Tariffs may reduce the bilateral trade deficit with one country, but they increase the trade deficits with others—like pressing on one part of a...
POLICY PAPERS
March 04, 2025
Despite strong evidence of impact and cost-effectiveness, nutrition interventions are consistently underprioritized and underresourced within the health sector. Drawing from relevant experiences in the broader global health landscape, this paper proposes four policy recommendations to enhance the ne...
