aid

Development partners have been talking about “letting the driver steer” for longer than I’ve been driving, but rarely has this gone beyond injunctions.

Ministers are gathering at the UN this week to discuss the financing needs to meet the Global Goals—with the challenge that resources will clearly fall short, not least because most high-income countries are still failing to meet their financial commitments. We reviewed the...

In the world of foreign aid flows, the idea of paying for outcomes rather than inputs has a long history. Yet despite regular proclamations of interest in such approaches, the share of funding that is linked to outputs or outcomes instead of activities and processes remains quite small.

CGD's Ian Mitchell on why looking beyond aid is important for development and how the CDI measures and weighs various development factors.