aid

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...

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.

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...

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.