Sustainable Development Goals

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WORKING PAPER

Estimating the SDGs' Demand for Innovation - Working Paper 469
Charles Kenny
and
Dev Patel
October 26, 2017
How much innovation will be needed to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals? Our results suggest that (i) best performers are considerably outperforming the average performance at a given income level, suggesting considerable progress could be achieved through policy change bu...
Blog Post

Solving the Private Sector Aid Imbroglio
Paddy Carter
October 02, 2017
In 2014, Mark Lowcock, then head of the UK’s Department for International Development, pulled off an unexpected coup: securing an agreement between donor governments on new rules for counting official loans as aid. Some neat diplomatic footwork is needed again now, because negotiatio...
CGD NOTE

Solving the Private Sector Imbroglio
Paddy Carter
October 02, 2017
Disagreement over how investments in the private sector are counting to aid is threatening to overwhelm the OECD Development Assistance Committee. There are no perfect solutions here; governments must find the least-bad compromise. We point the way forward.
Blog Post

A Global Burden of Disease Data Plus Model to Inform Domestic Decision-Making: In Search of Super-local Data
Kalipso Chalkidou
September 27, 2017
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) country rankings can strengthen the case of advocates at global and national levels for prioritising investment towards the major drivers of mortality and morbidity. But as discussed in our earlier blog post, when it comes to informing specific investment cases wi...