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Blog Post
September 13, 2023
For 20 years, the Commitment to Development Index has assessed countries' policies and the level of effort they go to in order to contribute to international development. Because development depends on much more than foreign aid, the Index looks at countries’ performance across eight different polic...
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March 03, 2023
Next week, a once-in-a-decade UN conference will meet to address the challenges facing Least Developed Countries (LDCs). It will plan delivery of the Doha Programme of Action (PoA), and review implementation of the Istanbul PoA. As part of this, attention should be given to a set of lesser-known UN ...
Blog Post
September 14, 2021
Today, we publish the 2021 Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which tracks powerful countries’ policy efforts on development across eight important areas, from development finance to migration. One of the CDI’s focal areas is the environment, which matters for everyone but is especially critical...
Blog Post
September 14, 2021
Today we launch the Commitment to Development Index 2021 measuring the policy efforts of 40 major economies in supporting development in other countries. The CDI focuses on the development spillover effects of policies in eight component areas: development finance, investment, migration, trade, envi...
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February 24, 2021
Just weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden announced a suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This follows similar promising commitments from Italy last month. As security and development are mutually reinforcing concepts, what countries do on arms exports matters...