Center for Global Development

Obama Launches Whole-of-Government Review of U.S. Global Development Policy

Sheila Herrling | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Sheila Herrling

Lots of folks are asking how this White House-led PSD relates to State Department's recently launched Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR).

Obama, Clinton: Elevating Women's Issues but Not Global Development?

Nandini Oomman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics


Nandini Oomman

The Obama administration has made separate pronouncements on global health, food security and women's rights. It's not yet clear how it will fit these together into a coordinated global development strategy.

New MCC CEO Ready to Roll?

Sheila Herrling | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Sheila Herrling

Word has it that the Administration's candidate for the Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO has cleared the arduous vetting process.

Despite Obama in Ghana, a Bad Month for African Democracy

Todd Moss | Posted 09.12.2009 | World


Todd Moss

In Mauritania the vote was so obviously suspicious that the electoral chief resigned and the opposition rejected the results.