Data & Transparency

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How Will We Measure the SDGs? – Podcast with Casey Dunning
March 22, 2016
If the SDGs answered the “what” question of the 2030 development agenda, the newly approved list of 230 indicators answers the “how.” But as CGD senior policy analyst Casey Dunning tells me on this week’s podcast, those 230 indicators raise new questions as well.  ...
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230 Indicators Approved for SDG Agenda
March 15, 2016
The United Nations Statistical Commission’s Interagency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) agreed on 230 individual indicators to monitor the 17 goals and 169 targets of the SDGs. We now have a complete picture of the SDG agenda for the next 15 years, right? Not quite.
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What Do We Mean By Results-Based Development? – Podcast with Raj Shah and Michael Gerson
February 16, 2016
It’s quite the buzz phrase: results-based development. But what is actually meant by "results"? Dr. Raj Shah, former Administrator of USAID under President Obama, and Michael Gerson, former presidential speechwriter and Assistant for Policy and Strategic Planning under George W....
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International Tax, Transparency, and Finance for Development: A Short Guide for the Perplexed
Maya Forstater
February 12, 2016
In the search for sustainable sources of finance for development, the potential for developing countries to collect more domestic revenues from taxation has risen to prominence in recent years. International tax evasion and avoidance and the role of tax havens have been raised as critical barriers, ...
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A Wish List for 2016 – Podcast with Nancy Birdsall
January 12, 2016
As well as being the beginning of a new year, this is also the start of CGD’s 15th anniversary year, so what better way to kick off than to invite our president Nancy Birdsall to cast her gaze back to 2015 and forwards to 2016.
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Ranking Aid Donors, Revisited: Perhaps Big, Old Donors Are Better Than We Thought
December 16, 2015
The research organization Aid Data has been getting a lot of attention in the aid world of late with its survey of recipient country policymakers and practitioners and their views of the utility, influence and helpfulness during reform of various aid agencies. Suggests the press release: &...