The CGD London offices occupy a set of rooms just a stone’s throw of Parliament, not that anyone would be advised to throw that stone, however much they may be tempted. It’s a good vantage point: close enough to observe, but not so close as for the grime to rub off. This week, a senior MP was sancti...

The MCC is particular about which countries it supports. Among the requirements, Ukraine passes the agency’s (important and legitimate) hurdle that it only works in the world’s low- and lower-middle-income countries. It also passes a lot of other tests the MCC lays out for support, based on a scorec...

Improving the effectiveness and traction of IMF surveillance could enable timely responses to climate-related crises. Overseeing the international monetary system and the policies of its member countries—an activity known as “surveillance”—is a key function the IMF performs to promote global economi...

Participants at the RISE Conference 2022 heard research on teachers, student learning outcomes, the political economy of education reforms, the impact of COVID, and more. Here’s a round-up of what I learned.

But to the extent the overall foreign assistance system is poorly managed to deliver, it is worth looking at who bears responsibility for those failures. The answer, surely, is the institutions implementing the programs—the ones who buy the goods and services ultimately purchased with US funding. It...

CGD has set up a working group to examine different ways to purchase antimicrobials in LMICs in order to identify actionable policies to improve access and stewardship for key products and increase funding for research into new ones. We are launching today the Working Group’s first working paper.

There’s a mild statistical bent to all my favourite pastimes. Cricket is the most numbers-obsessed sport in the world; everything is counted, put into averages, investigated under all contingencies (sure, Mahela Jayawardene averages 59.72 at home, but shouldn’t we be concerned his average is a full ...