innovative financing

In recent years, donors have been making greater use of performance-based payment approaches to fund development programs. The UK Department for International Development, using the broader term being used across the UK government, has added “Payment by Results” (PbR) to the development ...

At the Center for Global Development, we have been investigating, through our work on Development Impact Bonds, impact investment, and private investment more generally, the best ways to leverage private sector involvement in development for the greatest impact.

It is UNGA season here in New York City, which spells the annual arrival of scores of world leaders, snarled traffic, and headline-grabbing announcements from the international development community. 

Denizens of Climate World are gearing up for the “Climate Summit” being hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in New York on September 23rd.  The Summit is designed to elicit “bold commitments to action” from leaders of government, business, finance and civil societ...

Administrators in colonial-era Delhi, the story goes, had a problem. The growing capital city bordered agricultural land, bringing more people into occasionally deadly contact with a subcontinental rogues gallery that included cobras and banded kraits.