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Commitment to Development Index 2016: How Development-Friendly Are Your Country’s Policies? – Owen Barder
January 17, 2017
Kudos to Finland for ascending to the top spot in CGD’s 2016 Commitment to Development Index, our ranking of how a country’s policies help or hinder development. Most of the policies that score well on the index require some sort of international cooperation—so what does the CDI te...
Blog Post

Foreign Aid in the Trump Administration: Probably Different, but Not Necessarily Smaller?
Nancy Birdsall
and
Alan Gelb
December 21, 2016
Foreign aid is often mentioned as the first and easiest thing to cut, particularly in a Republican administration with a Republican Congress. But maybe not. Consider five points.
Blog Post

Girl Summit DC 2016: A Focus on National Strategy, Social Norms and Substantive Research
Tanvi Jaluka
and
Megan O'Donnell
October 28, 2016
For the third year running, CGD just co-hosted Girl Summit DC. Since 2014, the annual event has drawn together hundreds of researchers, practitioners, advocates, and government representatives to explore how to improve the lives of adolescent girls. These discussions have helped galvanize actio...
CGD NOTE

Using Financial Incentives to Increase the Number of Women in UN Peacekeeping
Charles Kenny
October 17, 2016
At present rates of progress, it will take more than three centuries for the UN to see the same number of women as men in peacekeeping operations, even though evidence suggests that increasing the proportion of women in operations will improve the success rate of peacekeeping missions and reduce lev...