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Why Isn’t the World Bank Asking What Works Before It Revamps Its Procurement Rules?

July 22, 2014
The World Bank is in the process of reforming its procurement system, the set of rules that borrowers have to follow when they use Bank financing to buy goods and services. Most of the proposals sound very sensible: much less “prior review” of the process for smaller contracts (World Ban...
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Editing ODA: What to Omit and Add in the Definition of Aid

July 22, 2014
My earlier posts on the definition of Official Development Assistance (here, here) dwell on the questions of when and how to count loans as aid.
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A Closer Look at How USAID and MCC Fare in QuODA

July 22, 2014
CGD and the Brookings Institution recently released the third edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA), a joint venture that measures donor performance across a series of aid quality indicators to encourage governments, institutions, and agencies to disburse more e...
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Conditioning the Compact: What’s Going on with MCC and El Salvador?

July 16, 2014
The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) board of directors approved a second compact for El Salvador almost a year ago, but the agency has yet to set a date for the signing.