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Blog Post
June 19, 2024
Development finance has grown in volume and complexity, but official development assistance (ODA)—defined by the OECD’s development assistance committee (DAC)—remains at its core in both a substantive and political way. Although it makes up a shrinking share of total financing for development, ODA i...
Blog Post
June 18, 2024
Roughly 40 percent of the world’s refugees live in countries where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals face legal persecution. 64 countries worldwide criminalize consensual same-sex relations, with sentences ranging from imprisonment to the death penalty.
Contrary ...
Blog Post
June 18, 2024
The environment in which development policy operates has changed rapidly. The world is becoming more multipolar, and countries from the "Global South” are taking a more prominent role in global cooperation. The global economy is in upheaval, and interconnected and ongoing crises are becoming the nor...
Blog Post
June 14, 2024
The Silence of the Links last week came during one of CGDs ‘summer Fridays’, a day off we’re entitled to every other Friday during the ‘summer’ (a phrase for which scare quotes are required in the UK, as this year’s summer has been by turns arctic and monsoonish). While I love writing the links, a d...
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June 14, 2024
Reuters reports today that the US Defense Department spread anti-vaccine messaging across Southeast Asia during COVID as part of an effort to discredit Chinese-manufactured vaccines. At a minimum, the Administration should amend EO 12333 to mandate that no US intelligence or psychological warfare op...