Data & Transparency

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POLICY PAPERS
How Does OPIC Balance Risks, Additionality, and Development? Proposals for Greater Transparency and Stoplight Filters
Ben Leo
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Todd Moss
April 26, 2016
As the U.S. government’s development finance institution, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) provides investors with financing, political risk insurance, and support for private equity investment funds when commercial funding cannot be obtained elsewhere. Its mandate is to mobi...
Blog Post
There Wasn't a Decent OPIC Database, So We Spent Months Making One
Ben Leo
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Jared Kalow
April 26, 2016
Even among policymakers, there is plenty of misunderstanding around how the US government’s premier agency charged with advancing a private sector-based development agenda, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), actually operates. When we searched for a database wit...
Blog Post
Comment, Please on a Draft Book on Aid, Donors, and Corruption
Charles Kenny
April 25, 2016
Donors frequently suggest corruption is the biggest obstacle to development and aid effectiveness, and that they can accurately measure corruption risk while protecting their projects from it at a reasonable cost.  It isn’t and they can’t.  Below, a brief synopsis.
Blog Post
To Make Aid Data Truly Transparent, Publication Is Only the First Step
Megan O'Donnell
April 19, 2016
To what extent have aid agencies delivered on their commitments to transparency? How do these agencies’ transparency efforts compare to one another? And beyond mere publication, what else needs to be done to make sure that available data is put to good use?
Blog Post
A Quarter of Aid Is Transparent – What About the Rest? Podcast with Rupert Simons of Publish What You Fund
Rajesh Mirchandani
April 19, 2016
“Transparency has the potential to transform the effectiveness of aid spending,” said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark at a recent CGD event co-hosted with Publish What You Fund to launch its 2016 Aid Transparency Index. For the second year running, UNDP comes out at the top of the in...
Blog Post
The Panama Papers and the Correlates of Hidden Activity
Matt Collin
April 15, 2016
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the British Virgin Islands, you might have heard of the massive leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm whose services included helping its clients create shell corporations and store their assets in offshore&n...
Blog Post
What’s Happening at CGD? April Events
Rajesh Mirchandani
April 04, 2016
Maybe it’s some kind of spring fever, but CGD is in events overdrive in the next couple of weeks, spurred on by the World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings, and the plethora of discussions they bring. We are delighted to be pairing up with, and hosting, some big names, and so we thought it would...