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December 06, 2023
As COP28 draws on, major multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made flashy announcements about their desire to expand debt-for-nature swaps. About a year ago, we warned against overestimating the efficacy of such swaps in addressing both climate change...
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November 14, 2023
After four and a half years at CGD, our senior fellow Dave Evans is embarking on a new and exciting adventure a few blocks away with our friends at the Inter-American Development Bank. But we couldn’t let him go without sending him off with what is becoming a Dave tradition: a round-up of his blogs ...
Blog Post
November 14, 2023
How newspapers and media outlets cover a topic can affect what people believe and what they do. Research shows that news coverage affects people’s actions across many aspects of their lives, from voting to fertility. In education, violence in schools is a crucial challenge: it is common, it is insuf...
Blog Post
November 13, 2023
Schools play many roles in society, but most people believe that they should at least help children to master fundamental skills—like literacy and numeracy—and make sure that children are safe in their care. Unfortunately, far too often, children are neither safe, nor learning. Many children experie...
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November 09, 2023
There are so many studies regarding so many aspects of development economics that it can be difficult to keep up. Last week was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference, often called NEUDC. Researchers presented more than 130 papers across a wide range of topics, from agr...
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October 30, 2023
In August 2021, as the world continued to grapple with the far-reaching effects of the ongoing global pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) took a significant step to help. Recognizing the unprecedented challenges faced by nations, the IMF issued an allocation of US$ 650 billion worth of S...
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October 24, 2023
Violence in schools—physical, sexual, and psychological—is an insidious problem, all too common in many countries around the world. While we have the data to characterize the overall problem, policy makers often lack the data they’d need to act effectively against violence (e.g., which people are co...