Learning by Measuring in Practice
Blog Post
11/8/13
How NGOs and service delivery organisations can be empowered by better use of data to improve public service delivery.
Tag: Europe
When Should Donors Mitigate Private-Sector Risk?
Blog Post
10/31/13
Some thoughts-in-progress: if you are going to provide a public subsidy to the private sector, is it nearly always better to amplify the returns than to reduce their risks?
“I Have a Dream ...” [Global Edition]
Blog Post
8/29/13
Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave his famous speech:
Science to Deliver, but No 'Science of Delivery'
Blog Post
8/14/13
The World Bank President Jim Kim has said that the next frontier for the World Bank is to 'help to advance a science of delivery'. But the problem is not that we are ignoring politics, as Kevin Watkins suggests: the problem is that we are ignoring complexity.
On Taxes, Trade, Transparency—and Turf
Blog Post
4/22/13
This is a joint post with Owen Barder.
In January, David Cameron nailed his colours to the mast with a speech in Davos that set out the three Ts agenda for the UK’s chairing of the June G8 meeting: taxes, trade and transparency. Since then, there has been much discussion of how serious the agenda is and what the G8 can actually deliver.
Illicit Financial Flows and the Three Ts of the G-8 Agenda – Alex Cobham
Blog Post
4/16/13
The day before we recorded this Wonkcast news broke of an agreement between the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to pilot “multilateral automatic tax information exchange.” My guest, research fellow Alex Cobham, explains why this is so important, why financial secrecy and international tax law seem suddenly to be at the top of the global economic policy agenda—and why this could be especially good news for developing countries.
The ‘End of Tax Havens’ – But Will Developing Countries Benefit?
Blog Post
4/11/13
News broke on April 9th of agreement between the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain to pilot “multilateral automatic tax information exchange.” In France, President Hollande went further – announcing a draft law aimed at ‘moralising’ French public life, as former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac was expelled from the governing party for repeatedly denying the existence of his Swiss bank account.
Are OECD Countries "Getting Away with Murder" on Aid Figures?
Blog Post
4/11/13
Richard Manning, a highly respected former chair of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) says in the FT that the OECD is "encouraging OECD finance ministries to get away with murder as they seek to massage reported aid upwards at minimum cost."
Congratulations to Michael Clemens on Receiving the Royal Economic Society Prize
Blog Post
4/4/13
I and all my colleagues at the Center for Global Development (CGD) are thrilled with the announcement today that CGD senior fellow, Michael Clemens, has won this year’s Royal Economic Society prize - a prize awarded annually to the author(s) of the best non-solicited paper published in The Economic Journal
Waste Not, Want Not
Blog Post
4/1/13
Owen Barder is sceptical about a proposed new public-private partnership to tackle hunger.