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CGD NOTE
April 24, 2025
In 2024, AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina urged shareholders to support a highly ambitious target of $25 billion for ADF 17, up from $9 billion for ADF 16 (which included $429 million for a new climate action window). Now, even meeting ADF 16 targets would represent a major victory because the ADF’s ...
BRIEF
March 27, 2025
African health systems are at a crossroads, grappling with systemic challenges including workforce shortages, underfunded infrastructure, and climate-driven health burdens. Volatile financing—driven by unpredictable donor commitments and competing global priorities—has left countries vulnerable to d...
CGD NOTE
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...
CGD NOTE
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 NOTE
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 NOTE
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...
BRIEF
March 01, 2025
This brief sets out options for the UK's Treasury in the use of the aid budget for meeting refugee-related costs.
The current approach is deeply problematic. It fails to deliver accounting officer responsibility for value for money, having contributed to significant unnecessary expenditure on refu...
