Center for Global Development

Aid to Pakistan: America's Headache

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Obama, Oxfam, Center for Global Development, Financial TImes, Usaid, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

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.

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Crowdsourcing: Putting the "Public" Back in the Public Sector

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Imf, Nancy Birdsall, Open Sourcing Public Sector, Center for Global Development, Financial Reform, World Bank, Crowdsourcing, World News

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.

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With Success, IDA Must Begin to Reinvent Itself

Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Global Development, Todd Moss, Ida, Ben Leo, Economic Development, World News

Fast forward to the year 2025. IDA will begin negotiating its 21st Replenishment Agreement. As with every other replenishment since 1960, donor ...

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Can We Get an Africa Lead at USAID Already?

Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Center for Global Development, Economic Development, Impact News

It's now 26 months since the inauguration and where the #%&$ is USAID's leadership?

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U.S. Budget Woes Threaten MCC Money and Model

Sarah Jane Staats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Development, Federal Budget Deficit, Mcc, Center for Global Development, fy2010 Budget, FY2011 Budget, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Politics News

The prospect of a U.S. government shutdown over the FY2011 budget still hangs over Washington.

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Another Food Price Spike: Weather Again to Blame for Wheat, Corn Pushed by (Even Worse) Ethanol Policies

Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Development, Center for Global Development, International Development, Global Warming, Food Crisis, Exports, Food Politics, World News

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.

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How Quickly Are Countries Progressing Toward the Millennium Development Goals?

Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mdgs, Center for Global Development, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, United Nations, Subsaharan Africa, World News

The United Nations recently published the 2011 World Economic Situation and Prospects report. But the picture that was painted by a highly simplistic brush.

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When Aid Works: RIP, Rene Le Berre

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalgiving, River Blindness, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, World Bank, New York Times, Center for Global Development, Dennis Whittle, Impact News

"René Le Berre, a French entomologist who helped inspire an international campaign that saved millions of West Africans from the parasitic disease r...

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Sudan's Bumpy Debt Road Will Run Through Where? Vienna?

Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Sudan, Center for Global Development, Debt Relief, World News

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.

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Who are Sudan's Two Biggest Creditors? And Why is it Something to Worry About?

Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Center for Global Development, Debt Relief, World News

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 ...

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U.S. Fiscal Commission Suggests Killing OPIC, the Government's Cash Cow

Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opic, Center for Global Development, World News

If you're interested in reducing the budget deficit, then the question isn't whether OPIC should be shut down. That's absolutely ludicrous.

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PHOTOS: Which Nations Are The Most Generous?

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Aid, Sweden, Philanthropy, Slidepollajax, Poor Countries, Commitment to Development Index, Center for Global Development, World News

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...

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CGD as Social Capital

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalgiving, Nancy Birdsall, Devesh Kapur, Center for Global Development, Dennis Whittle, Impact News

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.

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Replenishing IDA's Coffers: Time to Get Creative

Ben Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Global Development, World Bank, World News

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.

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It's 2010! Ten Actionable Ideas (Realized and Yet-to-be-realized) for a 21st-Century Global Development Agenda

Nancy Birdsall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalization, Nancy-Birdsall, Center for Global Development, Home News

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...

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Haitian Recovery, Sweatshop Jobs, and the Role of Trade Preferences

Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Center for Global Development, Trade, Haiti, World News

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.

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Yemen: An Alternative Approach to the Challenges Posed by Fragile States

Laura Liswood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microloans, Richard Fontaine, Gender Gap Index, Yemen, Hillary Clinton, Center for Global Development, Delta Airlines, Extremism, World Economic Forum, Andrew Exum, World News

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.

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Can We Provide Better Financing for Food Aid in Emergencies?

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vijaya Ramachandran, Global Poverty, Haiti Earthquake, Poverty, Center for Global Development, Haiti, Foreign Aid, Stock Options, World Food Programme, Futures, World News

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.

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After the Plane Bomber, Where in the World Is Nigeria's President?

Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nigeria, Todd-Moss, Governance, Center for Global Development, Africa, World News

A critical piece to the counter-terrorism puzzle seems to have been missed: where in the world is the Nigerian President?

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

Sheila Herrling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Global Development, Center for Global Development, U.S Foreign Assistance, Politics News

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

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

Nandini Oomman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Girls, Globalization, Usaid, Secretary Clinton, Poverty, Center for Global Development, Nandini Oomman, Gender, Politics News

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.

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New MCC CEO Ready to Roll?

Sheila Herrling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millenium Challenge Corporation, Millenium Challenge Account, Mcc, Mca, Center for Global Development, Politics News

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

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Despite Obama in Ghana, a Bad Month for African Democracy

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.

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