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CGD NOTE
June 13, 2025
Early marriage remains common in many parts of the world and is linked to negative outcomes for women and their children, especially among girls from poor households. While economic insecurity and social norms often drive families to prioritize early marriage over continued education, evidence shows...
CGD NOTE
June 12, 2025
In early 2025, the Trump administration began making drastic cuts to USAID and other global health programming, including the reduction and/or elimination of long-standing global health supply chain programs. The United States has historically been a major funder of global health supply chains, and ...
WORKING PAPER
June 11, 2025
China is increasingly confronted by a policy trilemma, according to which it will be forced to choose between scaling back lending under the Belt and Road Initiative; delaying or abandoning its commitment to the internationalization of the Chinese yuan; or making domestic policy adjustments to reviv...
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...
