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Blog Post
August 26, 2022
It’s precisely four years since Sierra Leone kicked off one of the most ambitious schooling expansions on record. Today, fee-free and ‘Radical Inclusion’ policies support marginalized groups, including pregnant girls and the poorest children, to participate in school. But could high stakes exams be ...
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August 18, 2022
Last month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board approved the institution’s first Gender Mainstreaming Strategy. This is good news—and the process used by the IMF gender team to draft and seek feedback on the strategy bodes well for the implementation of this important work. But the proof of...
Blog Post
August 02, 2022
It’s clear that development agencies will be faced with hard choices in the years to come. CGD’s 2022 Development Leaders Conference will bring together senior policymakers from official bilateral and multilateral development agencies and institutions to explore the way forward for development, dur...
Blog Post
July 20, 2022
Given the significant role the IMF plays in shaping governments’ macroeconomic policies through providing loans and guidance, an increased focus on gender equality at the Fund is critical. The new gender strategy will help to increase alignment between the Fund’s support to governments and its own r...
Blog Post
July 20, 2022
The Dutch government has published a new policy memorandum on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. According to Liesje Schreinemacher, the Minister in charge of this portfolio, a lot of what the Dutch government are doing in this space “works very well”. Though the evidence shows that some of ...