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May 23, 2013
This is a joint post with Will McKitterick.
The US Foreign Assistance Dashboard has a habit of quietly releasing good news just before Washingtonians leave for long holiday weekends. It added Millennium Challenge Corporation data two days before Thanksgiving in 2011. State and USAID announced aid d...
Blog Post
May 23, 2013
This is a joint post with Jenny Ottenhoff.
Ten years ago – on May 27, 2003 – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was born with the stroke of a pen by President George W. Bush. Over the last decade, the program has experienced tremendous growth and made inroads aga...
Blog Post
May 20, 2013
As budget hearings wind down, the Senate Foreign Relations International Development Subcommittee is holding a complementary hearing titled "Different Perspectives on International Development Assistance" and CGD's own Todd Moss is testifying. Also testifying are Bill Lane from Caterpi...
Blog Post
May 14, 2013
President Obama’s Global Development Council was envisioned in the September 2010 Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development and established by executive order in February 2012. This memo ahead of the Council’s inaugural meeting offers the chair, director, and members several ways to  ...
Blog Post
May 10, 2013
Lots of Rethink-relevant news and announcements lately. Here’s our roundup:
White House issues exciting new open data policy.
MCC launches evaluation catalog with metadata (microdata forthcoming) from its independent evaluations. First up: food security.
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Blog Post
May 02, 2013
If you haven’t looked at the Foreign Assistance Dashboard lately, I’d suggest you do so. The government’s online platform and (eventual) one-stop-shop for storing and visualizing US aid data has some new features. There are new displays of existing data, plus the first set of USAID...