Data & Transparency

As highlighted in the New York Times on May 6, CGD has been named as one of only two US think tanks (along with our friends at the World Resources Institute) to receive the top 5-star score in a new report from transparency advocates Transparify. 

One of the biggest hopes people expressed about Jim Kim’s nomination to become president of the World Bank was that he would bring a fresh perspective, focused on achieving results, rather than reinforce the institution’s bureaucratic machinery. Unfortunately, President Kim’s ...

We just ran 23 million queries of the World Bank's website. Technically, a piece of computer code did the work, occupying a PC in an empty cubicle in our office for about 9 weeks, gradually sweeping up nearly every bit of information available in the World Bank’s global database on poverty...