Governance

More from the Series

Blog Post
CGD Podcast: Preparing for Nigeria’s Elections with Amaka Anku
February 22, 2023
When Nigerian voters head to the polls on Saturday to elect the country’s next president, all of Africa—and beyond—will be watching. CGD's Gyude Moore sits down with Amaka Anku, head of the Eurasia Group's Africa practice, to discuss the advantages and challenges of the leading candidates, the role ...
CGD NOTES
Shifting Power in Humanitarian Nonprofits: A Review of 15 NGO Governing Boards
June 22, 2021
Humanitarian nonprofit organizations, from small, volunteer groups, to international NGOs with thousands of paid staff, operate in a patchwork of intersecting, competing and reinforcing missions. They share a common objective: to protect the lives of vulnerable people in crisis. When organizations f...
Blog Post
How to Assess the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA)
May 06, 2021
There is a lot of money being spent on official development assistance (ODA). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) confirmed recently that countries provided over $160 billion in ODA in 2020. But ten years on from the global agreement reached in Busan, South Korea to imp...
CGD NOTES
Forging an MDB System: Strategy and Governance
April 20, 2021
The need for collaboration and cooperation across the multilateral development banks (MDBs) seems obvious. Donor governments set up these institutions to multiply their development dollars, to concentrate global development expertise, and to spread knowledge and evidence of effective development pol...
WORKING PAPERS
Management, Supervision, and Healthcare: A Field Experiment
April 14, 2021
We used a randomized management consulting intervention with 80 public-sector healthcare facilities in Nigeria to study the role of information, training, and supervision on the adoption of improved organizational practices.
Multimedia
Development Trends in the EU and Beyond
March 11, 2021
Mikaela Gavas gives a presentation to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) staff on "Development Trends in the EU and Beyond."
Blog Post
Undermining Global Security: Measuring the Risk of Arms Exports and Commitment to Development
February 24, 2021
Just weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden announced a suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This follows similar promising commitments from Italy last month. As security and development are mutually reinforcing concepts, what countries do on arms exports matters...