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The President’s Global Development Council’s Last Hurrah

November 01, 2016
The President’s Global Development Council released a bang-up set of recommendations as the Obama administration draws to a close.
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Attn: Presidential Transition Teams – 3 Big Ideas and 3 Smart Reforms for US Development Policy

October 24, 2016
Global development isn't exactly a campaign issue. But we at CGD hope it's a policy area both presidential transition teams are taking very seriously. The next US president will need to confront and prevent crises where our development and humanitarian assistance is a far more usef...
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What Can International Development Learn from Britain’s Olympic Team?

August 18, 2016
There is a lot of chatter about the reasons for Britain’s relative success in the Olympic games. This transformation in Britain’s sporting performance has generated a raft of tortured analogies with various non-sporting challenges, such as industrial and education policies (on which Brit...
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Open Letter: A Call for Development Ideas to Address U.S. Challenges

August 17, 2016
Cindy Huang asks for ways to apply international development expertise to social, political, and economic dilemmas in the United States.