Aid to Pakistan: America's Headache
Despite calls to 'get out of Pakistan' and 'leave them to their own devices,' this does matter to global security, and not just because of Pakistan's expanding nuclear capability.
Despite calls to 'get out of Pakistan' and 'leave them to their own devices,' this does matter to global security, and not just because of Pakistan's expanding nuclear capability.
Alison Craiglow Hockenberry | Posted 08.03.2011
It won't be much longer that the IMF can select its leadership like it's still the 1940s -- in back room conversations between the Americans and Europeans.
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
Fast forward to the year 2025. IDA will begin negotiating its 21st Replenishment Agreement. As with every other replenishment since 1960, donor ...
Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011
It's now 26 months since the inauguration and where the #%&$ is USAID's leadership?
Sarah Jane Staats | Posted 05.25.2011
The prospect of a U.S. government shutdown over the FY2011 budget still hangs over Washington.
Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011
The decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year to increase the allowable level for blending ethanol with gasoline was a major factor in driving demand for ethanol -- and corn prices -- up sharply.
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
The United Nations recently published the 2011 World Economic Situation and Prospects report. But the picture that was painted by a highly simplistic brush.
Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011
"René Le Berre, a French entomologist who helped inspire an international campaign that saved millions of West Africans from the parasitic disease r...
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite having a smaller GDP than almost every other Paris Club country (only Ireland is smaller), Austria's debt exposure to Sudan exceeds $2 billion.
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a joint post with Ross Thuotte. Two countries alone hold over 25 percent of Sudan's crippling $35 billion debt burden. I'll give you three ...
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
If you're interested in reducing the budget deficit, then the question isn't whether OPIC should be shut down. That's absolutely ludicrous.
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
Sweden is rated as the most overall philanthropic nation on the planet, according to a new report. Prepared by the Center For Global Development, t...
Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike so many other places, people don't come to CGD only to score points or to win intellectual arguments. Instead, they come to present their arguments and listen to others and then go away and refine their own thinking.
Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
How much will donor governments reach into their shrinking wallets to finance IDA's health, infrastructure, and agriculture projects? How much financial creativity have donors and World Bank management brought to the table? The answers are mixed.
Nancy Birdsall | Posted 05.25.2011
I attended a conference convened and hosted by Jean-Michel Severino, the head of the French bilateral agency, outside Paris last week. The question p...
Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. efforts to help Haitians recover from the disaster should include further improvements in our trade preferences program to promote job growth and better working conditions in Haiti.
Laura Liswood | Posted 05.25.2011
Yemen remains the only country in the world to have closed less than 50% of the gender gap, a figure which is deteriorating further each year.
Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011
Emergency food aid would be more effective if it were financed on a multi-year, cash basis -- rather than on a year-by-year, reactive basis -- using forward contracts, call options, or other instruments available on futures markets.
Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011
A critical piece to the counter-terrorism puzzle seems to have been missed: where in the world is the Nigerian President?
Sheila Herrling | Posted 05.25.2011
Lots of folks are asking how this White House-led PSD relates to State Department's recently launched Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR).
Nandini Oomman | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Sheila Herrling | Posted 05.25.2011
Word has it that the Administration's candidate for the Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO has cleared the arduous vetting process.
Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011
In Mauritania the vote was so obviously suspicious that the electoral chief resigned and the opposition rejected the results.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 08.09.2011