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POLICY PAPER
June 09, 2025
This paper examines the changing shape of Chinese investment in Africa, as it evolves from large scale infrastructure toward small scale manufacturing. It looks at the opportunity for the region in the context of a deepening manufacturing labor shortage in China; discusses barriers to that opportuni...
WORKING PAPER
June 05, 2025
The paper develops an approach to empirically estimate the Net Debt Relief (NDR) curve for sovereign domestic debt restructurings, a salient feature of those restructurings in recent decades, as described in normative terms in Grigorian (2023). The proposed empirical methodology builds on the stress...
WORKING PAPER
June 03, 2025
Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean has followed a broadly inverted U-shaped trajectory over the past fifty years, rising until the 1990s and declining into the early 21st century, though with considerable variation across countries. Estimates of inequality vary widely depending on ...
SPEECH
May 27, 2025
On May 22, 2025, CGD senior fellow Charles Kenny delivered remarks at the Oxford Martin School, where he is a visiting fellow. His speech, “The Crisis of Climate and Development Finance," focused on the significant gap that exists between pledged and delivered climate finance and proposed a dual fin...
WORKING PAPER
May 22, 2025
In many parts of the world, women’s land rights remain informal, leaving widows—especially those without a male heir—at high risk of losing access to their land and homes when their husbands die. We study whether large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security, using data...
WORKING PAPER
May 21, 2025
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global threat that demands coordinated, cross-sectoral action rooted in rigorous evidence and inclusive governance. In response to calls for an independent panel on evidence for action on AMR, this policy paper presents insights from a global consultation ...
POLICY PAPER
May 12, 2025
Policy for urban refugees in Kenya and Uganda is rarely at the forefront of national discussions, leaving important gaps that could potentially be addressed with engagement from civil society. Based on a series of key informant interviews, this policy paper provides a stocktake of recent shifts in p...
