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January 27, 2015
A year ago this month, the Millennium Challenge Corporation turned 10 years old. To commemorate this noteworthy event, CGD visiting fellow Franck Wiebe and I spent most of last year taking a deep dive into MCC’s first decade of operations. The result is a new MCC at 10 series of pa...
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January 27, 2015
The purchasing-power rates (PPPs) from the 2011 International Comparison Program (ICP) suggest lower inequality and poverty in the world than was thought based on prior ICP data. However, there are some continuing and (as yet) poorly resolved concerns about the data revisions implied by the 2011 ICP...
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January 22, 2015
Amid rising interest in social impact investment, a growing number of social impact bonds, and a persistent interest in how the private sector can be best engaged in addressing global development challenges, Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) have been attracting a lot of attention....