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Blog Post
November 20, 2019
With the 2019 Nobel prize for economics going to Western economists combating poverty in LMICs through RCT-generated evidence, the time is ripe for the global community and national leaders to invest in a similar and yet different type of capacity: local pragmatic research infrastructure for learnin...
Blog Post
October 07, 2019
Worldwide military spending as a percentage of GDP in the years since the Global Crisis has been at nearly half its level during the Cold War. This column identifies three groups into which spending has been converging. It also shows that external threat levels are a factor in determining military s...
Blog Post
April 30, 2019
At the Center for Global Development, we recently initiated a project to develop more effective and equitable strategies for domestic resource mobilization in low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The impetus for the project is the Addis Ababa Action Agenda for financing d...